WORLD POPULATION: India set to become most populous nation by 2025: Maken!

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PTI / The Hindu / NEW DELHI, July 11, 2011.

Minister of State for Youth Affairs Ajay Maken, Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed and Youth Affairs and Sports secretary Sindhushree Khullar (left) at a national workshop on population in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: S. Subramanium.

India is set to become the most populous nation by 2025 and face many new challenges, if population continued to grow at the current rate.

These concerns were expressed by Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Monday at the “National Workshop on Youth for Population Stabilisation”, held to mark World Population Day at Vigyan Bhawan, where youth were urged to spread the message of population stabilisation.

The workshop, jointly organised by Jansankhya Sthirta Kosh (National Population Stabilisation Fund) of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, called for urgent steps to stabilise population in view of the limited available resources within the country.

But, do we have plans to feed them all or continue to keep most of them under below poverty level, as we are doing now!

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INDIAN POPULATION OWES: North India's population growth rising steeply: NGO!

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• July 11, 2011 
• IANS 
• New Delhi / DC.

A boy holds a banner during a demonstration by local activists demanding the 'Population Control Bill' for two children per couple, on the World Population Day in New Delhi - AP.

India's four largest so-called BIMARU states - Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh - have been showing a steep rise in population despite effective methods of birth control in primary health care centres there, a brief by an NGO on World Population Day said on Monday.

"Nearly 15 million women, mostly belonging to the 'bottom of the pyramid' in the four large North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar do not access available methods of family planning," said Devendra Kishore, professor of population programme management at the Management Institute of Population and Development (MIPD), in the brief.

The study depicted a contrast between northern states and southern states that have shown signs of population stabilisation.

"Southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka have been able to achieve the replacement level fertility, meaning a couple having only two children has kept the population growth almost stable," added Kishore.

The replacement rate in the region has been 2.1 children per women, said the brief, primarily based on the census statistics of 2011.

Its surprising that despite the rampant foeticide & female infanticide prevalent in North India, the population is going up, there!

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World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7 Billion!

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July 6, 2011 / http://blogs.worldwatch.org.

As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. The good news is that in addition to providing food, innovations in sustainable agriculture can provide a solution to many of the challenges that a growing population presents.

As our global population continues to grow, agricultural innovations could provide solutions to some of our most pressing problems. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)

“Agriculture is emerging as a solution to mitigating climate change, reducing public health problems and costs, making cities more livable, and creating jobs in a stagnant global economy,” said Danielle Nierenberg, Director of Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project.

This year, the world’s population will hit 7 billion, according to the United Nations. Reaching this unprecedented level of population density has prompted the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) to launch a “7 Billion Actions” campaign to promote individuals and organizations that are using successful new techniques for tackling global development challenges. By sharing these innovations in an open forum, the campaign aims to foster communication and collaboration as our world becomes more populated and increasingly interdependent.

Not even demographers can actually forecast how many people will be added to world population over the coming century, noted Robert Engelman, a population expert and Worldwatch Executive Director. As more women and their partners gain access to reproductive health services and manage their own childbearing, average family size has fallen significantly in recent decades and could continue to do so, assuming expanded support for reproductive health and improvements in women’s autonomy and status. The likelihood of continued population growth for some time, however, remains high. And that will add to the need to harness the ingenuity of human beings to sustain both people and the planet.

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