Essay on Population
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Population growth refers to the greater number of people on a limited terrain. In the case of population, after India, only the name of our country comes.
According to the 2011 census, our country has a population of 243.39 crores. It is growing at a rate of about 18% which is very high.
Most of the population growth is seen in developing countries and this situation is terrible for developing countries because it is very difficult to provide clean environment, water, food, employment etc. for such a population. Therefore it is very important to control the population
Due to population growth -
(1) Illiteracy - Due to lack of education people keep on producing children but do not think about their upbringing and future due to which the population keeps increasing.
(2) Child marriage - Due to the marriage of children at an early age, the birth of children also happens early, due to which the population growth gets more boost.
(3) Social pressure - Many times educated people do not want to have a child soon after marriage but due to social criticisms they have to give birth to a child quickly which causes the population to grow.
(4) Reduction in mortality - Our science and medical system has made so much progress that now even big diseases can be avoided, so people live longer, who continue to participate in population growth.
(5) Conservative thinking - Most of the people of the village often give birth to children due to their orthodox thinking, they wonder how their family will grow if there are no children. So they give birth to more children.
(6) Rising birth rates - In the old times, due to the non-development of medical system, children were often killed at birth, but now it is very low, due to which the birth rate increases and the population increases. .
(7) Son Moh - To increase the total family, people have more desire for the birth of a boy, but if the girl is born,
So they give birth to another child again, in the same way, in most cases girls are born and people give birth to children in son's attachment, due to which the population keeps increasing.
(8) Increase in life expectancy - As facilities have expanded in human life and due to good education, good food, clean water, hygiene habit and good nutritious food, every class is living its life well. Due to which every person is well nourished, that is why population increases.
(9) Increased Immigration - Immigration retirement is the main cause of most of the population explosion. This problem often comes more in developed countries because the lifestyle there is very simple.
At the same time, all kinds of facilities are available there and they get good salary for living, hence people of developing countries prefer to go there which causes one of the population growth.
Effects of Population Growth -
(1) Poverty - Due to continuous population growth, a person is unable to maintain his entire family because he has more children, due to which his entire life is spent in poverty.
(2) Malnutrition - Due to more children of a person, they are not able to provide nutritious food to them, due to which we get problems like malnutrition among the poor people.
(3) Polluted environment - If there is a large population in a country, then there will be excessive use of everything due to which the entire environment is polluted, due to the increase in population due to more carbon dioxide, contaminated water, and the need for a place to live. The forests are harvested, due to which the forests are destroyed as well as the animals there and problems like air pollution have arisen. Is.
(4) Lack of basic facilities - The citizens of any country need to get basic facilities like bread, cloth, houses, water etc. to live their lives but these are all available in limited quantity and the population will be more then these facilities. It will be difficult to meet.
(5) Unemployment - The industry is not growing at a rapid pace with which the population is growing, due to which most people are currently facing unemployment.
(6) Stopping the economic development of the country - The economic growth of the country whose population is more will also slow down because whenever the government makes five-year plans for development, it makes the population in mind.
But in 5 years, the population increases so much that the effect of that plan is not seen and the consumption of every commodity in the country is also high due to which there is a decrease in exports and slow economic growth.
(7) Lack of nutritious food - Fertilizers like urea are now used in the fields by the farmers to meet the dietary needs of the growing population as the population is increasing day by day but fertile to arrange their food. Land is available in limited quantities.
Therefore, pesticides and urea fertilizers are used to produce more crops, due to which those pesticides along with food spoil our body, so we cannot get nutritious food.
(8) Decrease in living standards - Due to population growth, the standard of living of each person also decreases, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer because often poor people believe in giving birth to more children.
They think that the more children they have, the more hands they will earn, but they forget to think that every child also has a stomach that needs more food to fill. Due to this thinking, the population keeps on increasing and people have to live by cutting their basic facilities.
(9) Increased inflation - If there is a shortage of a commodity then it is natural to increase its value, so as the population increases, so does the inflation because the consumption increases but the quantity is not produced in this way, so you must have seen. At present, inflation is increasing very fast.
Measures to control population
(1) Education - If we have to control the population, first of all we have to propagate education because education itself will bring the curtain of darkness on people's eyes and they will know that more children will have their future as well. The future of their children also gets spoiled, so it is very important to reach every village with education.
(2) Penalty or Penalty - The government should impose a penalty for producing more than a regular number of children to control the population or deprive them of free government facilities that help the people to control the population. Do it
(3) Promoting Adoption - Under the influence of present-day Western civilizations, young men and women produce children without marriage, but then fear of society they throw them in the garbage and some people due to their poverty, their children They leave those who are orphaned.
People should adopt these orphaned children so that the orphaned children will get their parents and those who want children will get children, this will also prevent population growth.
(4) Family planning - Our government runs many schemes for periodic family planning to control the population, but they are not able to read so much because people do not know about family planning. is.
(5) Minimum marriageable age - Child marriage is one of the biggest problems in our country, due to which the population is increasing rapidly. If the minimum age for marriage is declared then the population growth can be stopped.
The minimum age for marriage in our country is 18 years for girls and 21 years for boys, if it is strictly followed then population can be controlled.
Epilogue -
Population growth is a matter of concern as it is becoming impossible to provide basic facilities for the rapid growth. It is difficult to control population growth until every citizen of the country understands the importance of population control.
Today every citizen needs to understand that if they control the population then they will get clean environment air, water, health, food which will be balanced for their family, country and most of all the environment of our earth.