Sterilization: A Boon or Bane to "Growing" India?

Bangalore: During the past one and a half decade, India had witnessed a rapid growth of population. The country, being overpopulated, is forcing its masses to survive in the little available spaces and also to undergo sterilization process to slow down the growth rate of population, reports Jason Overdorf for Globalpost.

India has already failed to meet Millennium Development Goals to reduce its birth rate by the year 2015. Currently, out of the 29 states, just around half have reached the targeted level of two children per mother. As a whole, in the economically impoverished states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, an average woman bears more than three children during her lifetime. This in a way serves as a means to beat China on the race to become the world's most populous nation by 2030.

According to Avishek Goenka, a Social activist, “The uneducated who incidentally are also poor, give birth in higher numbers, but do not contribute as a productive resource because they are caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and the same prevents them from accessing the resource of good education, food and health,” reported The Hindu.

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