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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India must build awareness on population control -Aryan Pandey and Sanjay Kumar

India must build awareness on population control -Aryan Pandey and Sanjay Kumar

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published Published on Dec 29, 2022   modified Modified on Dec 29, 2022

-The Hindu

It is clear that India does not need a law for forced population control

Early in December, two Members of Parliament of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ravi Kishan and Nishikant Dubey, introduced in the Lok Sabha a private members’ Bill aimed at population control in India. Stating that population rise is the most significant reason for India’s slow rate of development, the Bill argues for an immediate need for population control. The debate and the discourse around India’s rising population is not recent, having begun since Independence. India was among the first nations to address its population problem as early as 1951, raising awareness about the ills of overpopulation. While there has been a significant rise in India’s population, there has also been a sharp decline in India’s total fertility rate (TFR). In 1950, the TFR was at around 5.9%, and is now 2% (fifth round of the National Family Health Survey, or NFHS). There was a steep decline after the 1970s, indicating an inversely proportional relationship between economic prosperity and the fertility rate.

The debate around the need for population control has been greatly politicised in India. The entirety of this discourse around such a sensitive issue is often reduced to a petty religious issue, and, ultimately, the subject of development suffers. 

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The Hindu, 29 December, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/india-must-build-awareness-on-population-control/article66314085.ece


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