Reasons Of Population Explosion-

BIRTH RATE

Poverty

India currently faces approximately “33 births a minute, 2,000 an hour, 48,000 a day, which calculates to nearly 12 million a year”. Unfortunately, the resources do not increase as the population increases. Instead the resources keep decreasing, leading to making survival for a human being more and more competitive even for the basic necessities of life like food, clothing and shelter. As the poverty and the population both increase, the development of the country and the society seems even more far-fetched.

Religious beliefs, Traditions and Cultural Norms

India’s culture runs very deep and far back in history. Due to the increased population, the educational facilities are very scarce. As a result, most people still strictly follow ancient beliefs. A lot of families prefer having a son rather than a daughter. As a result, a lot of families have more children than they actually want or can afford, resulting in increased poverty, lack of resources, and most importantly, an increased population.

DEATH RATE-

Although poverty has increased and the development of the country continues to be hampered, the improvements in medical facilities have been tremendous. This improvement might be considered positive, but as far as population increase is considered, it has only been positive in terms of increasing the population further. The crude death rate in India in 1981 was approximately 12.5, and that decreased to approximately 8.7 in 1999.As a result, although the measures to control birth are either not available or known to the public, the facilities to increase birth through medical facilities are available.

Current World Population –

The world's population doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999. It is currently (2010) at 6.8 billion, and is expected to reach 9 billion by around 2042.

More than 36 million died of hunger or diseases caused by malnutrition in 2006.". According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases. Environmental issues with agriculture have hampered the finding of acceptable solutions to these problems.

At present (2010), India has almost 1.2 billion people, having nearly tripled its population from around 400 million in 1960. Its average fertility rate, according to 2009 statistics, is about 2.7 babies per woman, essentially unchanged since 2004. That 2.7 rate means India's population is still growing rapidly because, due to the benefits of modern medicine (e.g. infant vaccines), the average death rate has declined from previous high levels. Most experts, therefore, expect the population of India to reach 1.7 billion by around 2050.

In addition Ehrlich said: "One general prediction can be made with confidence: the cost of feeding yourself and your family will continue to increase. There may be minor fluctuations in food prices, but the overall trend will be up." This has been held true with world food prices continuing to rise; 1 in 6 having there food prices doubling in the last decade and the global food crisis making over 1 billion people not having enough food to eat every day.

Some of the predictions came true but the effects are mainly unfelt in the developed world, according to Ehrlich critics. The world food production has grown exponentially at a rate much higher than population growth in both developed and developing countries, partially due to the efforts of Norman Borlaug's "Green Revolution" of the 1960s. The food per capita level is the highest in history and, according to a Russian textbook published in 2006, population growth rates have significantly slowed, especially in the developed world . However the effects of the green revolution have been short lived with an ever increasing rate of land becomming unusable for crop production and the last decade being the only decade on record where more food was consumed than produced. This has almost completely used world grain stores and doubt has been cast over the UN world food programmes ability to feed the ncreasing number of people being added to the program. In 2009, a net gain 75 million people occurred with the number of people starving going from 0.8 billion in 2008 to 1.01 billion in 2010.

Famine has not been eliminated, but its root cause has been political instability, not global food shortage. The Indian economist and Nobel Prize winner, Amartya Sen, has argued that nations with democracy and a free press have virtually never suffered from extended famines. Nevertheless, in 2009 the U.N. reported that one billion of the world's population of nearly seven billion people were in a constant state of hunger, and that the proportion of hungry to non-hungry was expected to rise considerably in the coming decades because most population growth was occurring in the least developed countries.

Population Implosion Rather Then Explosion-

India is world’s second most populous nation in the world, while it is only the seventh largest in area. Human resource is the most importance resource of a nation. Illiterate

people, people who do not possess adequate training for development, are not resources but liabilities to a nation. Thus development of human resource is essential. General education as well as technical education should be imparted. Developed nations developed their natural resources only after development of human skills and technology. The development of human resources encourages development of natural resources not only to meet the local demand but also for export.

In order to develop the human resource we have to check the rapid human growth rate. In India the poor have children and the rich have money. As a result a large no of Indian people are below the poverty line. A country’s prosperity can be calculated by taking the number of people below the poverty line. Every country aims to lower the poverty line. China is on its way to become a developed country by lowering its poverty line. This was mainly possible because China was able to check the rapid population growth rate. One reason behind the poor having these many children is that the women are illiterate, they don’t have a say in their reproductive matters, they are not aware about the contraceptives available.

What do so many children do? The parents compel them to earn for the family at a very young age by doing odd jobs. They don’t get proper education, they are deprived of their

childhood, they become an easy toy in the hands of corrupt politicians and terrorists thus

becoming anti-social elements.