Explosion of our national population

In recent future, if uncontrolled, we are going outnumber China in population or human resources.

Several schemes with incentive have been launched without optimum results. For argument sake, illiteracy, poverty, lack of national awareness and a sense of nationalism are some of the reasons for the failure of this plan. The policy makers, knowingly or unwittingly failed to see through the psyche of two largest religious groups namely Hindus and Muslims. Both these groups feel a sense of insecurity, fear of being out numbered, losing their further dominance and so on.

It is interesting to note that hard liners in both the group protest family planning. Hindus argue that only academically, culturally and socially advanced groups adopt family planning schemes. However, the advanced group refrain from adopting population control methods. Consequently, the Hindu society will turn into a group of uncivilized, uncultured and illiterate groups. They also remember how Fiji with fifty two Hindu population became subordinate citizens when Christianity was declared state religion. In the same way, Pakistan and later Bangladesh won freedom as secular and democratic nations but in a few years both were declared autocratic Islamic states. So, the Hindus fear one day Muslims will become equal to Hindus and demand for

Islamic rules. To add to their worries, Maulanas, Muftis and Imams categorically state family planning is against the wishes of Allah who graces His followers with off springs. Though, in some Muslim countries state sponsored family planning schemes are welcomed by general masses. This strange behavior of Muslims raises suspicion in the mind of ever suspicious hardliners among Hindus.

Social scientists see through the problem from different angle. National interest is of little interest for them. Right activists, too, leave it to individual discretion. For these groups, population is not a problem rather it becomes so when states fail to manage or utilize human resources. Leftists think that over population will cause scarcity that will result in class war and help spread communism.

These ideological differences particularly in India have caused failure of family planning schemes. In China, being governed by different political system, the plan became almost fully successful. On the contrary, in democratic set up it is difficult to strict measures. We can pray for dawning nationalism in every Indian mind.