Thursday, 15 November 2012

Are we over populated?

Is India over populated country?Land only supports what it can hold. There are enough fields here which provide for our people. It was a concern for European countries that if population of India increases, it would become a communist country, and that it would threaten the free world. This view had started programs to target driven population control plans. Indian government visualises differently--population's health is important, and population control is automatically checked.Main reason for population growth is the fact that life expectancy of Indians has tremendously increased.In 1930's life expectancy was 22 years on average; now it is 65.Diseases like cholera or other contagious diseases have decreased.People  are educated enough to control family size.Two child family norm was popularised since 70's.
Health of the people is the true  concern of the government.Families which have access to heath care are small. All like smaller families which have better health. There is no 'target' centric programs of the government. Top 20% of population produces 80% of the wealth of the nation. Level of resource distribution among the population is skewed. And that is the primary concern of the government, how to set that right?
Marginal people at the lower levels suffer because of lack of education, because of lack of health, and because of unsanitary conditions in their home environments. Politics determines the condition of the people. Access to health services is reason for the disparities. Cost of health services and medicines is very very high. 80% of the health services are funded by private firms.Health is available for those who can afford it. This denies health benefits to the ordinary people. There are states like Tamil Nadu which provide free consultation and free medicine in all government hospitals which is open to all people. These states have given its people better health, and here the population has stabilised. When women gain greater control, in decisions made by them, the population health has increased. We have to fight patriarchal mindsets and give more decision making power to the women, then only health of the nation would become better. All these years, women were held responsible for the large number of children produced. That is not true they were controlled by men who had convenient excuse--blame it on the women. There are more challenges ahead. Government envisages that private companies could be entrusted with health services. But this will not work out. The private firms work on profit mode. They do not care for the health of the people. In Chhatisgarh state, thousands of women were operated upon to remove their wombs, when none of the operations were required; the health firm had to show results and it victimised the poor women. When there is food security, proper management can make our population healthy.Population studies cannot be done by isolating statistics(how many and when) We should see population stabilisation in view of child survival, in terms of maternal health, in view of maternal education, in visualising social status of women, in employment opportunities for all.And we must see how anti poverty measures have improved the lot of the poor.International Inter ministerial Conference on Population and Development took place on November 11, 2012; it had confirmed that population had stabilised, 

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