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Sir, today in our country the biggest problem which requires solution at the top level and in the most
urgent manner is the population explosion. We are all aware that we are adding one Australia to
India so far as increase in our population is concerned. In spite of our tremendous agricultural
output I do not think by 2020 A.D. we will be able to reach the growth in our agricultural production
with the exploding growth of population and so far as the availability of Houses, class and other
amenities which are required for our population is concerned we will be lagging far-far behind. Even
today, most of our economic and most of our budget allotment cater for building up infrastructural
facilities only. This has resulted in stagnation of development of our country. I would suggest to the
hon. Minister some of the points which may go a long way to make our country or our society more
aware of the necessities of controlling the population and making the family planning programme of
the Govt. a success. My first suggestion is that societies involvement should be more intensified. To
day most of the family welfare and family planning programs are begin made, executed and
monitored by the Govt. my suggestion is that more and more no-Govt. social arrangement should
be involved. The biggest hurdle in our country is religion. Somehow, we are still suffering from a
phobia of having a son and in search for a son people produce string of girls. Not that the girls are
not welcome. But this is the philosophy of some of the religions. There are some religions where
use of family planning devices is being condemned. There are other religions where abortion are
supposed to be anti-religious. So far as our villages are concerned the family planning movement
definitely desires to be intensified. Today, the rural areas are more urban oriented. We are having
more family planning movement in the urban areas where the rich, the upper middle and the middle
class living. We all know that in this class of society people haven taken family planning seriously
and successfully, so far as the family planning movement is concerned. But no villages, we still
require the necessity of having this movement intensified. The basic reason is that so far as poor
people are concerned the poor people living in the urban areas they think that having a large
number of children is an economic boon.