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> One thing which is never talked about in these articles is the failure of Indian government (past and present) to find effective family planning policies. Pop

by em500 9y ago

> One thing which is never talked about in these articles is the failure of Indian government (past and present) to find effective family planning policies. Population growth is through the roof and hence unemployment is huge. Looking at the actual data https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=IN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... it's not clear that the government could have found more effective family planning policies, save for rather draconic China-like measures.

ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago
Indeed, they've actually done fairly well with population growth imo in recent years. Many states are at or below tfr replacement level as seen here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_fertility_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_ranking_by_ferti... . It's the poorest states that still have challenges and even then overall growth continues to trend downwards. Population momentum is a problem but can't do much about that now. Interestingly all of the people mentioned in the article who moved to Delhi to become part of the scamming are from the red (high tfr) states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but that may just be a coincidence.