POPULATION EXPLOSION

Population is a big hurdle and a drag on growth. India’s Population is projected to touch 1.5 billion by 2030. It may surpass China’s in 2024 and accounts for 18% of the World’s total population. Every nook and corner of India is a clear display of increasing population. Whether you are in a metro station airport railway station road highway bus stop hospital shopping mall market temple or even in a social and religious gathering we see all these places are over crowed at any time of the day. Due to steep rise in population there is extreme poverty unemployment shortage of land and food pollution poor quality of life migration of population etc. More than 20% of the population don’t have even two square meals of the day what to speck of other facilities. Overpopulation will also place great demands on resources and land leading to widespread environmental issues in addition to impacting socio-economic conditions and standards of living. Overpopulation issue is further compounded by the difficulty in providing solutions for the problems. The book covers issues such as: Population Trend Causes Impacts and Way Forward to Combat Population Explosion. The book will be of immense value to policy makers programme planners public and private sectors NGOs social and environmental workers demographers developmental practitioners and the people in general who dream to see ”A Paradise On Earth”. The views expressed by the author are personal and derived after a long study of valued documents.