The population of the world is increasing day by day. It is reaching dangerous proportion. This is particularly so in the developing nations. China for instance has the highest population. India is not far behind and in a couple of years its population will exceed that of China. Something needs be done soon. There are several reasons for this.
One reason why the people don’t give a serious thought to that problem is the high level of illiteracy in the poor and developing nations. As a result they don’t understand the importance of family planning and checking the growth of the population. They also have outdated ideas about the number of children they should have. They believe it is destiny that will decide how many children they should have and that it is a sin to control the number of children.
In the developing countries 80% of the people depend on agriculture for their livelihood and live in rural areas. Farmers are often illiterate and believe that the more the number of the children more will be number of helping hands. As a result they have more mouths to feed and cannot care for them properly.
Population explosion in developing countries retards the progress of the country. It leads to widespread poverty and other related problems like unemployment and exploration.
People are basically selfish and they see things from their point of view. They don’t think it is a semi-social problem having many children. So it is the government that has to control the population. China once made a rule that there should be only one child per family in order to curb the population. It achieves remarkable progress.
The Indian government is now making it imperative for the politicians to have not more than the children otherwise they can’t participate in political activities. The Indian government organizes free camps sterilization. The government can provide benefits like cash awards for sterilization, a reduction in income tax, the number of children is not more than two and some other free facilities. Likewise a penalty can be impossible if the number of children exceeds two.
In Australia the government offers a lot of benefit schemes to couples if the number of children exceed two, as the population of this country is reducing fast.
It is a difficult task for the government to control the population. The government should take bold step to tackle the problem. The population growth rate affects other sectors like economy, employment, agricultural growth, poverty and so on. It is also a world problem for if the population is not kept in check it can lead to shortage of food. World food production must go on increasing to feed the governing the number of months. Population explosion can destabilize world economy.
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