Problems we are facing due to Population.
1. The rapid increase in India's city population has resulted in the growth of what are called slums or squatter settlements resulting in serious social, economic, and environmental problems.
2. A related concern is that of food security. There has been a repeated concern that India’s population growth might outstrip increases in food output.
3. the government's cost of storing and handling the distribution of grain has greatly increased, availability of grains to the poorest of the poor has actually worsened. Moreover, diminishing soil productivity has been increasing costs of production thus increasing the burden of subsidies that are provided to a small section of India's farmers.
4. shortages of resources makes things even worse, especially for the poor and underprivileged. Even as sections of India's lower-class struggle with scarcities - it is the poor and vulnerable sections of society who suffer most
5. So far, these resources have been shared in a very unequal way. Some Indians have the luxury of taking long showers twice or thrice a day - even their pets are bathed daily, and their cars scrubbed from top to bottom. Other Indians are lucky if they get to bathe once a week.
6. In addition to the problem of scarce resources, high population growth also has serious social consequences. As is already quite evident, industrial growth can, and is taking place with virtually no increase in the demand for labor. Improved agricultural implements and expanded availability of tractors and mechanical threshers and harvesters has meant that there has been little growth in the demand for agricultural labor.
7. So far, most sections of India's elite have done little to push for a serious population policy. In large part this has been because they have benefited from this unending supply of cheap labor. But this unending supply of cheap and largely unskilled labor also has serious unrecorded economic consequences. In the global market, this puts Indian industry at a competitive disadvantage rather than advantage.
Yes or No
Do you think India should have One Child Policy ?
1. The rapid increase in India's city population has resulted in the growth of what are called slums or squatter settlements resulting in serious social, economic, and environmental problems.
2. A related concern is that of food security. There has been a repeated concern that India’s population growth might outstrip increases in food output.
3. the government's cost of storing and handling the distribution of grain has greatly increased, availability of grains to the poorest of the poor has actually worsened. Moreover, diminishing soil productivity has been increasing costs of production thus increasing the burden of subsidies that are provided to a small section of India's farmers.
4. shortages of resources makes things even worse, especially for the poor and underprivileged. Even as sections of India's lower-class struggle with scarcities - it is the poor and vulnerable sections of society who suffer most
5. So far, these resources have been shared in a very unequal way. Some Indians have the luxury of taking long showers twice or thrice a day - even their pets are bathed daily, and their cars scrubbed from top to bottom. Other Indians are lucky if they get to bathe once a week.
6. In addition to the problem of scarce resources, high population growth also has serious social consequences. As is already quite evident, industrial growth can, and is taking place with virtually no increase in the demand for labor. Improved agricultural implements and expanded availability of tractors and mechanical threshers and harvesters has meant that there has been little growth in the demand for agricultural labor.
7. So far, most sections of India's elite have done little to push for a serious population policy. In large part this has been because they have benefited from this unending supply of cheap labor. But this unending supply of cheap and largely unskilled labor also has serious unrecorded economic consequences. In the global market, this puts Indian industry at a competitive disadvantage rather than advantage.
Yes or No
Do you think India should have One Child Policy ?
