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Population Control: Need and Way Ahead

  India is country which is diverse in its ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious characteristics, there are around 1.7 billion people in our country which makes us the second-most populous nation after China, nonetheless, it won't be long that we will conquer China and become the most crowded country on the planet. The greater part of us is currently mindful that our population is growing expeditiously and we are in a phase where we need to control it. Our Hon'ble Prime Minister himself talked upon this point in his Independence Day speech and advised us to have a deeper thinking in family planning. There was a time where we were the first country in the world to ever adopt a policy for population growth. Now the time has come to adopt it once again. Why Population Growth Is A Problem For Us? / Why We Need To Control It? Excessive population is not only going to impact human life but also is going to impact environment, economy and etc. Some have been pointed down below: P...

Population control: Is it a tool of the rich?

  As the world population reaches seven billion people, the BBC's Mike Gallagher asks whether efforts to control population have been, as some critics claim, a form of authoritarian control over the world's poorest citizens. The temperature is some 30C. The humidity stifling, the noise unbearable. In a yard between two enormous tea-drying sheds, a number of dark-skinned women patiently sit, each accompanied by an unwieldy looking cloth sack. They are clad in colourful saris, but look tired and shabby. This is hardly surprising - they have spent most of the day in nearby plantation fields, picking tea that will net them around two cents a kilo - barely enough to feed their large families. Vivek Baid thinks he knows how to help them. He runs the Mission for Population Control, a project in eastern India which aims to bring down high birth rates by encouraging local women to get sterilised after their second child. As the world reaches an estimated seven billion people, people lik...

METHODS OF POPULATION CONTROL

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  The word Population is defined as the group of all the living organisms of the particular species, in a particular geographical area, at a specific time with the capability of interbreeding. Few examples of the population include millions of people living in a Mexico City, teak wood trees in a forest tract, bacteria in a culture plate, etc. What is Population Control? Population control is the methodology or the practice used to control and maintain the type, location and number of people that inhabit the earth. Quality and status of life have undergone a drastic change over a century. We have to thank the improvised and advanced technologies around the world for this. One of the impacts of advanced technology on the economy is reduced mortality rate and increased the birth rate. This has led to one of the most dangerous problems crippling the world today viz. population explosion. India has grabbed its position among top powerful countries. Lifestyle, status, and economy everyth...