27/3/2018
PUNE: To raise awareness about the ever-increasing population
and several issues relating to social, economic and health arising out of it,
the Rashtra Nirman Trust has organised Kashmir to Kanyakumari to Delhi ‘Bharat
Bachao Yatra’, which will reach Puneon Thursday, March 29.
“Increasing population is a bane especially for India as it
leads to shortage of infrastructure, cost inflation and unemployment, and we
need to face these issues collectively,” said Sanjay Pardesi, convener of the
yatra.
Speaking at a press conference, Pardeshi said that the only
way to face the problem was to arrest the growing population without bringing
in religion, caste, creed or culture into drafting the new law on population
control.
Professor Prakash Joshi, Sudhir Rane and Shrihari Bondar were
present at press conference, They will arrive at 5 pm on Thursday at Navale
Bridge on Sinhagad Road.The yatra will then follow Shastri Road, Tilak Road,
Alka Talkies chowk, Fergusson College Road, Shimla Office before culminating at
Shaniwarwada, which there will be a huge gathering wherein speakers will talk
on the burning issues that the nation is facing.
“In 1976 China introduced one-child per family law and
strictly followed it till 2016 before the law was relaxed,” Pardeshi pointed
out. “China had then realized that growing population was affecting country’s
growth and once the law was in place China prospered to become world’s number
two economy,” he said. “India should also have such strict law if it aspires to
match the bigger economies,” Pardeshi added.
Prakash Joshi said that the leaders of different political
parties should come together and speak on this issue. In 1977 when emergency
was declared in India by the then government, Sanjay Gandhi had led a campaign
to population control under which 70 lakh families were forced to undergo
sterilization even though there was strong opposition to it.
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