The Sample Registration System Statistical Report for 2024, released earlier this month, stated that the total fertility in India fell below 1.9. It could have dire consequences.
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Below 1.9 for India causing dire consequences is an unwanted alarmist approach. We can afford to drop even lower given the fact that every resource in India is under stress. So many nations with even lesser fertility rates are and have developed solutions to combat manpower crunch. What we should be doing is to focus on improving the quality of our nation, through better education, healthcare, better environment management, better housing and more cultured people who have best of civic sense, and most of all a hugely improved and responsible opposition politicians who are able to put nation first versus political ambitions for their progeny, and not run up huge intern debt through misuse of public money.
Below 1.9 for India causing dire consequences is an unwanted alarmist approach. We can afford to drop even lower given the fact that every resource in India is under stress. So many nations with even lesser fertility rates are and have developed solutions to combat manpower crunch. What we should be doing is to focus on improving the quality of our nation, through better education, healthcare, better environment management, better housing and more cultured people who have best of civic sense, and most of all a hugely improved and responsible opposition politicians who are able to put nation first versus political ambitions for their progeny, and not run up huge intern debt through misuse of public money.