India's Population Explosion

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the situation, policies to prevent further population growth must be implemented on a war footing. With India's population reaching the 1,000 million mark on 11th May 2000, we rank second in the world, next only to China. This is 16.5 per cent of the world's population, while India's landmass constitutes a mere 2.4 per cent of the world's land area. Our national income is less than 1.2 per cent of the total world income, with our external trade being hardly 0.5 per cent of the global trade."

"Generally, political leaders have not talked much about population issues, both because of their own misunderstandings of the problems population growth is causing and because of the sensitive nature of population issues. Political leaders are most likely to talk about immediate crises and not address long range problems."

Although some of the linkages among population growth, poverty, and the environment have caught attention from researchers and policymakers, many strands of this ...

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In 1960 there was an average of 0.21 hectares of grainland for every citizen. That has fallen to 0.1 hectares today, and by 2050 is likely to have fallen further, to 0.07 hectares.

"The population explosion has created an alarming situation in Bihar, crippling the state's economy and also straining the natural resources of the state. The existing educational, health, transport facilities are overstrained and unable to cope with the pressure and are proving to be inadequate to meet the basic needs of the people. And the hapless people are at the receiving end of all these problems, says Abhimanyu Singh, a retired IAS officer and the state coordinator for the Centre for Policy ...

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