Indian population

The population of India grew exponentially since independence. The major reason for the growth is due to the fact that the death rate went down owing to better availability of medical services and nutrition but the birth rate didn't go down proportionately. The average life expectancy increased from 32 to 69 today. At the time of independence after partition India's population was 300 million. But today the population of the nation has jumped up to 1.22 billion plus. In the last decade alone India added a new Brazil to its population. Every year India has been adding number of people equivalent to the population of Australia.

This population explosion in India has had tremendous effect on the development of the nation. The truth is development of the nation has stalled because of this exponential population growth over the past 6 decades. There are more poor people in India than there were at the time of Independence because of the high population growth. The hospitals , schools , collages and other services became inadequate after a certain period of time because of this high growth in population since they won't be able to accommodate increased number of people.

Normally a home has one or at the most two breadwinners but when the number of mouths that have to be fed increases there is hardly any money left for other activities . Neither good education nor good medical services can be provided. India was one of the first countries in the world to have population control programme . However this programme was unsuccessful owing to lack of political will and ignorance of the masses. It is because of ignorance that Indians have suffered for the past 67 years since independence.

The rate of population grown is now coming down however it has not come down enough. The city of Kolkata has actually seen a fall in the numbers of children between 0-6 years . However most of India that lives in villages still are not looking into birth control and family planning many of them are simply ignorant about it.

The fallout of this population growth has been very bad on agriculture. The population density of India has now become high , its now higher than Japan. The amount of arable land per farmer has reduced owing to population growth.

    The solution of this problem lies in judicious use of technology to increase farm productivity and spreading awareness among the masses regarding population control. The population growth has one positive side though India has the highest numbers of youngsters in the world they must be considered an asset and proper training and education must be provided to them so that they are able to work towards the development of the nation.