Why our new MPs need to worry about population boom

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Now that Independent India is more than 60 years old and with the General Elections round the corner to elect the 15th Lok Sabha, it should no longer be wishful thinking if Indians expect their leaders to set and deliver meaningful agenda for governance for the next five years. There are many challenges facing India and none is too bigger than the population explosion. If our rulers have any semblance of foresight, they should focus their attention on this much-neglected and much-ridiculed idea of population control before it pulls down the entire edifice. They should not shy away from doing something on this front merely because it is neither popular nor going to reward in electoral terms. They should not look at the problem with any religion or community in mind. The magnitude of the annual increase in population can be seen from the fact that India....