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The 2026 delimitation exercise will lead to anomalies

On November 15, according to a subtle calculation, the world’s population touched eight billion. And who was the largest contributor to this figure? Who but… India, adding 177 million people out of the last billion born in the world. This ‘contribution’ would have been a matter of some embarrassment were it not for some good news that came alongside. The United Nations — no less — said on that day that India’s population growth appeared to be stabilising, adding that this showed that India’s national policies and health systems, including access to family planning services, were “working”.

India’s population growth is indeed stabilising, with the Total Fertility Rate, which is about the average number of children born per woman in India, having declined from 2.2 to 2.0 — taking India as a whole.

India ‘as a whole’ stands complimented.

But is India an un-differentiated ‘whole’? All of us know it is not. As does the world. The United Nations Population Fund has said 31 of India’s states and Union territories (comprising 69.7% of the population) have achieved fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 — a good statistic, showing the increased adoption of modern family planning methods. “This indicates,” the UN organisation has said, “significant improvements in access to family planning related information and services.” To that we must add, ‘in the States and Union Territories where the stabilisation has been established’.

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