The real problem of the country is population boom. Reservation is not an answer to this. We have to import huge quantity of wheat, Dal, Crude oil etc for the increasing population. In 1947 the population of undivided India was 33 crores. Now only our population is about 105 crores. Whereas the land and all other natural resources r limited and same as before. In addition to increase in population, the per capita energy consumption is also increasing very fast. All this has caused vast degradation of natural resources. Water and air have got polluted. Sub soil water table has gone down. There was no bottled water 15 years ago, but due to pollution, bottled water is becoming a norm. Roads of all big and small towns r jammed with traffic. Forest land is getting depleted. Many plant and animals r getting extinct. Global warming is taking place.
The solution is forcefully enforcing one child norm on the lines of China, who started this policy in 1979 together with opening up its economy. It is worth mentioning here that land area of China is many times that of ours. Had China not done so, there would have been a few crore more people on the earth.
Most of the religious leaders, Muslims, Christians, Hindus etc, foolishly ask people of their religion to have more children. It is catastophic. They should know that God and Nature do not distinguish on the basis of religion.
The population of developed countries stabilised long ago, same thing is required elsewhere as well.
RE:The real problem
by on Apr 14, 2008 05:08 PM Permalink
I agree fully except the part that developed countries have a stabilised population. Its not true. Europe has destroyed its nature long time back and is still overpopulated.
RE:The real problem
by arungopal agarwal on Apr 14, 2008 05:04 PM Permalink
Why not Govt. asked these people who are covered under reservation-not to have more than one child as their contribution to the nation.
RE:The real problem
by on Apr 14, 2008 05:12 PM Permalink
Its so good to hear from an Indian praise about the one child policy. With food and water getting scarce and food riots already happening in Haiti, it seems too late to save the environment of the earth. But there is no other way but to reduce the population by exercising strict birth control. Religions and the capital will always want people to multiply, former to have more followers and latter to have cheaper and cheaper labour. These two entities being in power almost everywhere in the world except maybe in China, the world is going to get destroyed day by day and there is nothing being done at all.
