Fighting Overpopulation in India with a Population Control Law

Fighting Overpopulation in India with a Population Control Law

• When more than one-seventh of the entire worlds population lies in one country, it gives rise to numerous problems on a scale that is next to impossible to tackle.

• Overpopulation in India is one of the most alarming problem as India’s population is set to touch 1.69 billion in the year 2050. Seeing these mind-boggling statistics, there exists a dire need for a population control law in India.

• In the monsoon session, a bill was drafted in front of president Ram Nath Kovind demanding a population control law in India.

•  The long awaited “Hum Do, Humare Do” policy would basically mean that the government subsidies would only be given to the first two children. 

•  Similar laws are already in place in countries like Vietnam. Also, China replaced its strict one child policy with a law very similar to this.

   Why do we need to control Overpopulation in India?

•  Inflation has reached an all time high making it hard for families to feed even one child but when we take at look at the economically backward sections of the society, 

• women are still considered to be baby making machines. Projections state that the demand for water in the year 2050 would be 150% of what it was in the year 200. 

• Similarly, the demand for food would be somewhat close to 200% of what it was in the year 2000.

•  If we live to see that day, it would be traumatic because food scarcity and water scarcity were a problem in the year 2000 as well.

•  Meeting twice that would be absolutely absurd and ultimately, India’s growth would not be ecologically sustainable.

• Hence, to try and curb overpopulation in India, we should draw our attention to strengthening the legislature and introduced population control law in India by signing a petition namely the #Bharat4PopulationLaw with www.taxab.org. 

• The gains of economic growth should not be neutralized by the growing population, if we don’t attend to the problem of overpopulation in India now?The increased demand of the growing population would become impossible to deal with.