India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population
This book makes a thorough investigation of the population problem issues in India from diverse angles- demographic, policy and programme. Discussing the theoretical background of population control, the book also deals with all mundane issues - social, c
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India’s Journey Towards Sustainable Population
India’s Journey Towards Sustainable Population
Bedprakas SyamRoy
India’s Journey Towards Sustainable Population
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Bedprakas SyamRoy Kolkata, West Bengal India
ISBN 978-3-319-47493-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47494-6
ISBN 978-3-319-47494-6
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To my affectionate Maniparna
Preface
At 5 pm on 10 July 2015, the World Population Day, the population of India touched the magic figure of 12,7423,9769 constituting 17.25 % of the global population, as per the National Population Fund. With a rate of growth of 1.6 %, faster than China’s rate of growth of population, India will have 1.63 billion people by 2050 and will surpass China. Population of India, as per the 2011 Census, is almost equal to the combined population of the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan. Unfortunately, for India, there is hardly any commensurate response to the enormity of this impending danger across the stakeholders. Population clock in India is, in fact, a mere national showpiece, a record keeper of number; it has not been of any use to generate or tick any alarming signal for the nation. This casual feeling has infected the administration of population control and family planning right from the policy-making areas down to its implementation at various layers of field functionaries. The absence of correct focus on an alarming situation has been the sad story of population control scenario in India. This is due to the fact that both the union government and the state governments have not been administering its constitut
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