Boon or Bane?

By the time you are reading this, our population would have crossed 125crores and more. The figure literally gives us jitter if one is worried about the future of our country. It is not a joke, in days to come if one said to another, “Hey man! Just move a bit, I have got a new born babe. It needs some space!”

It is the habit of every Indian to expect someone to provide us a solution for our problems. Or one can say, our Government has pampered us to behave so by giving all the solutions ready made. However, in this particular issue, despite many measures from Government, the population growth is beyond one’s control.

This is the Government’s responsibility, although, to take some measures for this problem, we cannot expect the Govt to enter our bedrooms for such control. The control is in the hands of us, we the citizens of India.

It is the high time we had some stringent rules for this population control. While the southern part of India had almost achieved zero population growth, it is the reverse on the Hindi-heartlands. States like Rajastan, Madhyapradesh, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkand, Uttaranchal, Uttarpradesh, Maharashtra are not severe in implementing this.

A recent news tabloid gave me another jolt. Since the community of Parsis is shrinking, they encouraged their community personnel to have more children. Parsi community did not shrink because they adapted birth-control but because they banned those who married outside their community. If such narrow-minded people were made leaders of communities, India definitely had it.

Same is the case with Islam religion. They are not bothered about the consequences of having more and more children. Their growth rate is phenomenal and the Govts for the sake of votes keep mum on this and are shying away from pressing the panic button.

We should have following rules:

• Pay tax if you had more than 2 kids (this should be a hefty penalty)
• One cannot be eligible to be a Government servant if he / she had more than two kids. If they were employed prior to their marriage and had kids later, their employment should be terminated. They should not be made eligible for pension also
• Leaders of this country have to lead by example in this. One cannot contest election if he had more than two kids nor he can be nominated to RS.
• Free treatment in Government hospitals are eligible only if the family had birth-control. If they violated, the charges will be doubled
• Same rule should be applied to school fees also.
• (I am not recommending imprisonment, because, imprisonment guarantees food without any job being done and adds burden to the Government)
  

Will these happen? ….. Contd…..