Thread: Burning Issues of National Concern

Decreasing Sex-Ratio In India: Sex ratio (females/male) in India has declined from 934 as in 1981 census to 933 as in 2001 census. Female foeticide is the most probable cause, dowry practice also affects the safety of an Indian girl child, even abuse, and exploitation of women cum girl children.

Population explosion is a big issue. It would affect the effective utilization of natural resources (land, water etc) and happiness of our people. But we do not need to worry about producing food in order to feed them we already have advanced agricultural techniques like precision farming. Our agriculture sector can do well, provided some motivation, encouragement and education to farmers, the abolition of profit motivated practices of middle men and some practical adjustment in our food habits would be enough to deal with this issue.

Since we have moved away from the agrarian culture the rate of population growth would come down i think. Women are getting educated and employed so they wont find time to conceive and deliver a lot of babies like they did before.

Again we need to have effective mechanisms to deal with those religious groups who encourage larger families.

Unemployment is a byproduct of overpopulation. This issue needs to be addressed locally by each panchayats. We have MNREGA and that would control this issue to an extent. But in order to find meaningful jobs the youth them self-have to explore and innovate. We also need to enhance the outreach of institutions like NABARD which would assist the youth with resources and skill.
In other words these problems that you have mentioned have already identified effective solutions, we only need to work and make sure that right effort is being applied.

There are other issues which needs urgent attention like ill-health, pollution, financial security of common men etc...