Overpopulation raises the alarm in India

 

 

          Overpopulation raises the alarm in India

India is a developing country which faces various serious problems in its way of growth and development.Overpopulation is one of them.Overpopulation refers to the population of people that exceeds the required amount of population in the country. India is the second populous country in the world with the current population of 1.37 billion.China is most populous country in the world with 1.43 billion population. As per reports, India is projected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world by the year 2027. India's rising population is a grave concern. If it does not get controlled timely, it will hamper country's growth, development and progress.Let's take a look at the causes, effects and solutions of this serious problem.

Causes

Unawareness and illiteracy: People are not aware of the unpleasant consequences of having a big family.They don't know how birth control methods by using protection, contraceptive pills and various medical procedures.

Religious belief: Some people believe that having more children is the blessing of god.

Social customs: Customs like polygamy is also one of the factors that leads to large families.

Better medical facility and technology: With the advancement in science and technology, it became possible to reduce mortality rate and increase birth rate leading to the growth in population.

Effects

Unemployment: It is a major problem due to overpopulation. This problem can be noticed nowadays.Less jobs, more applicant and aspirants. People are getting jobless and struggling to get jobs that are even below their educational standards. No jobs means no survival. This situation is getting worse with the passage of time. Dark futures for the freshers due to growing unemployment.

Crowd and long lines: You will see crowd everywhere.It would be very difficult to manage traffic in busy places. We see long queues at banks, cinema halls, hospitals, airports and railways counters which sometimes get very hard to manage.

Tough Competition: Due to rising population, you can see a large number of competitors in each and every field.Everybody is facing a tough competition because crowd is everywhere.Be it educational or business field, competition heats up. So it gets tough to survive in this cut throat competition.

Limited resources and food production: More people means more demands. With the increase in demands, more supply and production are required to meet the needs of the population. This gives a big challenge to the country to produce food crops and procure resources in large quantities which is not easy as it looks. For this, better planning, modern techniques and equipments are required which add more financial burden to the country's expenditure.

Pollution: More people will burn more fuel and dump more wastes resulting in the increased pollution.As you know, pollution is also a growing a concern and various steps and measures are being taken to reduce it. It also becomes difficult how to reduce and dump wastes and make a clean environment.

Loss of habitat: As the population grows, humans acquire more lands by moving to jungles and cutting trees and plants to construct homes, buildings and industries.This forced many animals and birds to leave their homes and take shelters to places that are not good for their breeding and survival.

War and conflict: Due to strong competition, unemployment, food shortages and encroachment, war and conflict like situation will be on rise.

Poverty: Due to inadequate food, resources, supplies and jobs, country will lead to poverty.

Solutions

Family Planning method: People should make a better family planning according to their financial and health status.

Awareness: First of all, steps should be taken to educate people about sex.We should try to educate young generation so that they can know about the sex education.

Control and Protection: People should use protection while having sex and should undergo vasectomy and surgical operation for birth control in the family.

Government programmes: Population control awareness campaigns should be launched to educate people about the bad consequences of overpopulation. Government should take active part in it and should also start some family programmes to control birth rate in the country.It should make efforts to spread awareness programme by using taglines like "Hum Do Aur Hamaray Do".