Need of a policy advocacy for stabilising population in India.

This paper describes how the issue of over-population is an irrelevant issue for the political class in India; as well as for the sorry state of affairs it is critical of the bureaucrats and technocrats. At the same time the paper narrates why and how ‘stabilized-population’ is the most important and an indispensable crucial issue for the overall socio-economic and technological development of India. It says that almost all the problems of India such as environment housing food illiteracy transportation water mass migration or unemployment and so on; are the products or by-products of uncontrolled spiraling of population. It weighs the impact of ‘spill-over population’ on agriculture food security employment housing education electricity poverty water economy etc. The paper briefs the importance of ‘population’ in Five-Year Plans. Information Education and Communication (IEC) has a lion’s share in the paper with the logic how policy advocacy at all levels such as political legislative and executive; could make this issue of spiraling-population a peoples’ movement and how every citizen could be a ‘change-agent’ in this endeavour what kind of ‘policy-changes’ are indispensable for ‘stabilising-population.’ The paper mentions that family-welfare communication has been a neglected area in India though it is the first-ever country to have a nationwide family welfare programme. It adds that there is a yawning gap between planning and implementation of population-welfare programmes in the country that demands professional expertise from communication-alchemists with maverick ideas to make the things click. It also includes a developmental communication-model which could be applied for bringing the desired-changes for stabilizing population.