How to fight Overpopulation in India by Dhruv Rathee
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
just have a look at this Mumbai's local trains video,
In this video 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
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
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
you can see in this two charts 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 video was of help to all of you and you got to learn somthing out of it.
Please Share this video so that the people of this country get to know
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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