Need to improve quality of life in India
India is set to become the most populous nation; improving the quality of
life is crucial. National leaders must redouble their efforts to raise
education, health and living standards for people everywhere. They must
singularly focus on improving education and health access for women.
There is a rise in life expectancy. There is a growing population of
older adults. It opens up prospects for employment in many new services
catering to them. Urban facilities have to be reimagined, with an emphasis on
access to good, affordable housing and mobility.
There is need to make progress in poverty reduction, greater equality,
better nutrition, universal education and health care, needs state support and
strong civil society institutions. Making agriculture remunerative and keeping
food prices stable are crucial to ensure nutrition for all.
Many young career oriented women have been refusing to have more than one
child; often have none at all. Thus entrants into the country's labour force
are declining in nos. Within only 10-12 years we have very few and declining
trained personnel to take over the basic service and production systems.
Serious manpower planning is necessary in India.
There is the dire need for controlling population. We should have a
national population policy. We cannot afford to multiply like rats having
regard to the limitations of land availability, production of food grains and
other produce for feeding the population. Instead it is advocating the need for
producing more for meeting the demands of the rising population. Whenever we
talk of population policy, it becomes a religious issue with certain sections
of minorities opposing it.
Fundamental indicators of quality of life include have sufficient
nutrition, adequate accommodation and environment, social and psychological
fulfilment, and health. However, modern development is responsible for creating
and/or facilitating many of the world's evils. They include a sense of
spiritual and cultural loss, environmental degradation, rapid population
growth, Third World debt, social unrest, unemployment, vastly increased
capabilities of humanity's destructive potential and a sense of declining
societal standards.
It seems the two child norm followed from the early days has taken a back
seat these days. Brushing aside such stipulations there are certain group of
people who feels that their number in
the nation is comparatively less and should gear up for more kids. So
regardless of the community one belongs to, an equally applicable population policy needs to be
implemented. Education remains the prelude to achieve such an objective.
We need to take immediate steps to curb the growing population as it will
hinder the path of developing nation. India must seek support from other
countries who needs manpower. India could become the supplier of skilled
manpower that will benEfit both countries.
China's population has been declining gradually since the application of
one child policy and a noticeable reduction in its population is now on the
surface. India will become the most populated country in the world because of
its enormous number of existing population which is on the 2nd rank worldwide
and the effective as well as rapid actions taken by other countries to reduce
their population will also push India towards the 1st rank.
Huge Indian population & ranking as the most populated country in the
world by 2025 is not a great achievement under any circumstances. In fact there
is an urgent need to control population in the country which is already running
out of valuable resources like water besides climate change destruction of
flora & fauna & forests causing damage to the environment & global
warming with high toxic air content making living a night mare. India in the
future will pay a heavy price if it neglects controlling the population as
there can be less jobs & food scarcity
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