Stabilising India's Ever-Increasing Population
India has 2% of world's land, 4% fresh water, but 18% population. Add to these the World Bank's estimate that 69% of India's jobs are likely to be lost to Artificial Intelligence in a couple of decades. At 138 crores, the country is overly over-populated and still gaining about 1.50 crore every year. Even if maximum-two-children norm is enforced from today, the population will stabilise only at about 175 crores and that in 30 years from now. The solution lies in initially tying up all sorts of government and elected positions - current and new, subsidies, and grants to (i) no third or subsequent child born to a couple after, say, 30th November 2020, (ii) marrying girls at minimum 21 years, boys at minimum 25, the relevant Act should be amended for it,(iii) educating children for 12 years from the age of six years, for this RTE will have to be amended to cover the age group 6 to 18, (iv) institutionalising all births, and (v) immunisation of all children till the age of ...