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.