Essays

Introduction. India is a country of vast area. Our country is facing many serious problems. We daily read of famines, floods and earthquakes. The government is doing its best to solve these problems.

Population explosion. Of all the present problems that most dangerous is the population problem. Here there is population explosion. The economists estimate about population is very discouraging. According to them, India's population is multiplying very rapidly. If this population continue increasing at this high rate, it will be about V03 millions a( the end of the 20th century. The situation would be of more explosive than that created by atom bombs.

A sort of birth control is essential- it is therefore clear that some form of birth-control on the growing population is very essential.

Steps taken by our government. Our planners have thought over this problem seriously. Allocation of funds for welfare in five Year Plans has been increasing. In the First Five Year Plan RS. 5 lakh were kept for population control. But in the Fourth Plan Rs 100 crores were kept for family welfare. The centers are associated with some hospitals of locality. The red- triangle is the symbol of family welfare centre. In the rural areas there is a Family Planning Centre on every eighty thousand population. Mobile service unit’s provided. For every fifty thousand population- there is one Mobile   Unit. Various contraceptives and other facilities arc provided.  Family Planning is being encouraged. Posters connected with Family planning are seen on walls, buses act. Propaganda is made thought newspapers, radio films and Television and Television.

Slow progress. However the progress in the field is very slow. While the population is increasing very rapidly. It is not only the duty of the government to make plans and schemes but the people should also feel the seriousness of the problem. They should co-operate with the Government.  They should make it their holy duly to exercise some Control over it.

Conclusion. Once our late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi had said, "With our limited    resources we must ensure that in every home every child is a wanted child and has the rightful share of health, Education and employment.”