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It is high time we started playing down this counting of heads. One government department has been assigned the task of surveying our population. Let them do it. Population surveys were undertaken in India to plan for the future according to the needs of the day. If this approach had worked, then we would have had good planning a long time ago and the country's problems would not have been what they are today.
India's population has become a ready excuse for the government. I think it has more to do with politicians blaming everything on a large population to shield their inefficiencies. Why is it that they don't say there are too many people before the elections? They don't complain about too many voters. Everybody is busy trying to increase their votebank.
Those who count heads need to count themselves among the people of India. They have to stop replacing our forests with monoculture plantations of, say, eucalyptus. Stop replacing our indigenous animals and crops with fancy high-yielding varieties. They need to clean up the catchment areas of waterbodies and respect their sanctity and put an end to emitting putting so many poisons in the air.
The billionth baby will have a secure future only if the planners stop looking at problems from a distance through graphs and charts and make an honest attempt to refresh their understanding of the accumulated problems facing us. The past is done with and the present is beyond our control. The future is all that we can change and is full of possibilities. Let us not nip that bud by sowing terminator seeds of bad planning. If the politicians fail to do this, the curse of the newborns will fall heavily on our politicians, especially as we have reached that magical, almost homoeopathic figure of one billion.
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