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Kasakbabu
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Post Number: 3722
Registered: 11-2004
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>>If the right to
education, right to employment and the right to mention Mother Teresa in
beauty contests are constitutionally enforced, why not population control
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Conqueror
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Kasakbabu
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Post Number: 3715
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India today has well over a billion people which account for about 20 per
cent of the World's population and considering that we have in those 1
billion, some south Indian heroines, we also account for about 30 per cent
of the World's weight. Take a look at these figures:
a.. Every 1.2 seconds a Child is born in India, the fastest in the world.
a.. Every year we add about 25 million people i.e. A complete Australia and
Malaysia.
a.. We have only about 2.5 per cent of the World's available land area and
even lesser of the available water resources.
It does not take complicated maths to do the sums. We have a ministry for
Information and Broadcasting , which supervises the working of Doordarshan,
whose outstanding levels of tedium play a direct role in increasing the
fertility of couples, Couples, who are so bored that for entertainment that
they actually read the Software license agreements which pop up while
installing pirated software and have a hearty laugh together thereafter
("Ha..Ha", it goes).
We have a ministry for Sport and Youth headed by a 78-year-old person whose
own youth has served time for anti national activities i.e. Sporting
ridiculous haircuts in the 1990s movies like "Saajan" and "Thanedar".
But we do not have a Ministry for Family Planning (it is clubbed together
with Ministry of Health), for an issue that is clearly a more grave
emergency than Doordarshan (though that is debatable).
India was the world's first country to institute a government sponsored
program for family planning. As usual, the 'democratic' approach was and
still is a bit too conciliatory. A bit like Sushma Swaraj, preaching the
virtues of abstinence to control AIDS. Abstinence is something Vishwamitra's
mom also tried telling him, when Menaka was doing an item number under
Indra's direction. I could imagine the dialogue
"Vishu !!!, come back here. How many times have I told you to abstain"
"But Mooo..m, she is Menaka. Miss Urdhwaloka 5000 BC. Can't I at least just
talk to her ?"
"No.. at your age you must focus on Tapasyas, Yagnas and funny hairdos"
But Vishu obviously did not listen and the world got a sneak peek in the
creature that man is. i.e. the World with the exception of Sushma Swaraj.
For, Swaraj was convinced that rather than sex education and mandatory HIV
testing for marriages, a billion Indians could easily achieve what
Vishwamitra could not.
Moral of the story: Purely conciliatory approaches do not and will not work
in India. The same hypocritical naivete has characterised the family
planning program. While conciliatory approach is obviously 'democratic', no
such planning works without a carrot and stick approach i.e. Incentive for
limiting family size smaller than four and penalties for going beyond.
The penalties need not be jail terms, Kumar Gaurav movies would do just
fine. But penalties are needed ..may be in terms of a higher income tax, or
less preference in recruitment or Promotions.
Before the communists and rent-a-cause socialists come out with daggers
drawn that this is non democratic and unconstitutional, let us take a look
at the spectacular underperformance of the democratic approach. Even if
right now, every couple restricts itself to two children, we would still
overtake China in another 15 years with even lesser resources to handle so.
If these conciliatory approaches would have really worked then we need not
have any penalties even for tax avoidance, drug trafficking, etc.
Solution to this problem itself directly would ease some of the related
problems if not solve them altogether. Urban overcrowding and squalor,
Environmental degradation, Unemployment etc but no political party deems it
fit to enforce population control.
I guess "control" and "politics" do not really go together. If the right to
education, right to employment and the right to mention Mother Teresa in
beauty contests are constitutionally enforced, why not population control.
The citizen also has a duty towards the country, which the nation has every
right to enforce.
Population control is no longer a debate topic. It is a desperate emergency
that calls for desperate measures.
If the government could get time from rewriting history books, announcing
free electricity and handing out reservations like Paans after a wedding,
there could yet be a solution.
If not then the citizens have to do what is the Government's responsibility,
i.e self governance. I bet even Vishwamitra would have said, "Tathastu".
source: http://sify.com/news/offbeat/fullstory.php?id=1372 4314 |
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