How to fight Overpopulation in India

 

Over Population!

In 2015 India's Population was a whopping 1.31 Billion.

Predictions shows in 2022 India will over take china to become world's most populous country

That's just five years from now

Earlier predictions cited year 2028 for this to happen

But India's Population is growing so rapidly, that it will reach that mark in 6 years advance

And it isn't a matter of pride

Over Population leads to poverty, Unemployment

leads to climate change

which pressurises the natural resources

like forests and Land

leads to increase in social and religious conflicts

So overpopulation is regarded as the root cause

of most of the problems in this part of the world

The condition has really worsened

and is visible everywhere like markets and public places

If you want to get an Idea of the situation

In this blog I am going to discuss about some possible solutions

which can be used to tackle the problem of overpopulation

whenever we are discussing solutions for overpopulation,

China's one child policy comes first mostly, in our minds

They think India Government too should follow china

and Implement this policy to restrict,

the birth of more than one child .

But most of the people dont know

That China's one child policy was a failure

thirty years later in 2015 they ended this policy

This policy lead to a huge

gender imbalance

and increase in female feticide

This happened because like India, China too is traditionally

a patriarchal society

where people prefer at least one male child

over a female child

So when the government restricted the number of child to one

so people preferred

to go for female feticide

to have a male child

not girl

this led to a huge gender imbalance

which made China a world's worst sex ratio country in 2004

122 males is to 100 females

this huge gap in male female population led to some ill practices BRIDE PRICE

in which brides were bought in return of money

in few case brides use to runaway with the money within few days of the marriage

so one child policy led to all these problems

so we can conclude

the one child policy is not a good solution to fight overpopulation in case of India

India's force Sterilisation

                                                                              

forced sterilisation too was suggested as a solution

to counter over population

this thing in fact had already been tried in India

During the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1976

when her son Sanjay Gandhi

lead a forceful sterilisation program

In which 10 million people were sterilised

there were few incidents of forceful sterilisation

people were compelled

to go and get sterilised

But surprisingly!! even after sterilising 10 million people

there was no evident effect of this on population growth

no noticeable change was observed!!

this shows forceful imposing of unplanned policies wont lead to a change

And above all its very unethical to sterilise someone forcefully

because reproduction is a very basic Human right

No one should get to decide how many child a person can have

its immoral and unethical

so forced sterilisation cant be regarded as a solution in todays world

True Solution to Overpopulation 

So it all melts down to this question

what can be the effective and realistic solutions against overpopulation??

and answer to this is a little boring

and it is the investment in education and health care

and to understand this we must know

what fertility rate means

fertility rate of a country

is the average number of children a woman gives birth to

in her life time , if fertility rate of a country is 2

that means every woman in that country gives birth

to 2 children on an average.

which means

the number of people dying are equal to number of children born

This makes population stable

this is why

2 fertility rate is called REPLACEMENT fertility "theoratically "

but in reality

many children die during the birth itself

so realistically

The replacement fertility rate is taken as 2.2

and if any country's population

is near about this replacement fertility rate

then in future

it will remain stable

so to end over population

we must aim

to maintain fetility rate of the country close to 2.2

and why I am saying that education is the only solution

to fight against over population

because fertility rate and literacy rate, both are surprisingly interdependent

higher the literacy rate lower the fertility rate

this pattern is observed in many places of the world over

As well as indian states

for instance kerala

                                          

the state with highest literacy rate in India

nearly 100% literacy rate

has a very low fertility rate how fertility rates an literacy rates

are correlated in each state of India

you can see Madhya Pradesh Rajsthan Uttar pradesh in the center

literacy rates are very low

and evidently the fertility rate is very high!!!

in fact very few states of india have fertility rates above 2.2 in whole India

those are Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Utar Pradesh and Bihar

and because of this states India's population is Increasing

because rest of all the other states have come down below this replacemen fertility rate

so as an individual the easiest thing one can do is

To vote those political parties which are serious about Public Education

the governments of the states of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh , Delhi, and Tripura

Have increased the Budget for Education by a good amount

Unfortunately our Central govt and many other state government

Don't seem interested in giving Education any priority.

The share of Education was 4.57 % of the total budget During 2013's congress govt.

It gradually fell down in 2014, 15, 16 to become 3.65% in 2017

this shows this govt is giving least priority to the Education

and is siphoning out the money from its budget to put it somwhere else

The root cause of all the problems which is overpopulation

nothing is being done to fight it

on the other hand money is bieng wasted on statues Advertisements

in the name of cow protection and what not

no one seems interested in improving literacy rate

conditions are worst in the states of MP, UP, Bihar, Rajasthan

which are critical states for the populations point of view

the polticians over there are promoting overpopulation

few of them suggest to have atleast 4 kids

education minister of Rajasthan who is responsible for the right Education of the people

is endorsing myths and superstitions like Cow inhales Carbon-di-Oxide and Exhales Oxyge

therefore It is really important for these states to especially focus on Education

And to vote those people who focus on this

Friends, I hope this blog was of help to all of you and you got to learn somthing out of it.

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the root cause of all the problems in our country like poverty, Unemployment, pollution

is overpopulation!!!!!

and how can it be fought with.

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