“Family planning should be made compulsory in India”
1. India, which is already facing the problem of overpopulation, will be vastly benefited, as family planning will help tremendously to curb the population growth. With lesser population to look after, the standards of living will improve. Thus the future generation will be well educated and well nourished.
2. Also, the larger the population, the greater is the pressure on the country’s environment, disturbing its natural life cycle. Population reduced by family planning will help to sustain the environment.
3. Financial resources can be diverted to other spheres of national progress, rather than being used up in coping with the ills of spiraling population growth.
1. Implementation of family planning will encourage unethical practices like abortion that are quite unacceptable in India, majority of whose population is orthodox and superstitious. Child being considered a gift of God, implementation of family planning will face not only hurdles but also a lot of resistance.
2. Premature death of the single child of a family will cease its lineage. Parents will be at a complete loss, both financially and emotionally in their old age.
3. Scientists have proved that marriages in very close relations lead to birth of unhealthy or abnormal children. Traditional in-caste marriages will be restricted to a few single children after a couple of generations of compulsory family planning, thus, leading to the birth of many an abnormal child, due to genetic inbreeding.
4. Compulsory family planning will give rise to more nuclear families. The future generation will drift away from their ancestors, losing the traditional Indian family bonding and security of a joint family.
“Government should fund elections. ”
1. The root cause of corruption in our polity is the nature of elections that periodically take place. Elections are costly affairs requiring huge sums of money to contest. Political parties