Should India have a One Child Policy?

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Preetam singh said:   5 years ago
Good evening everyone, according to my opinion in India this policy shouldn't apply. Because in future the parent only produces one child, then that child will not have any siblings and relatives, they feel loneliness. Suppose that if the child dies after the death of this child the parent feel loneliness and in this age, you know that they are not able to any work. Tell me how they will survive their life without their child.

As well as we all know that in India many people give the first priority To The Boychild if we adopt this policy in India we see again miscarriage and gender imbalance.

I clearly agree that our country stands in second place in terms of population. We are facing many problems like as: third people behind the poverty line and increased demand of food and beverage people become jobless and lack of Health Services.

According to me: control the increasing population of India.

1. Right education is enough for people to decreasing this population.

2. The government should be get informed to the people about the causes of the problem by overpopulation and learn about family planning.

3. The government should be aware to the people of pregnancy control.

If the government apply this policy we will not reduce problems and this policy doesn't help in our economic development.

When people will educate our economic and population-related problems automatic decreased.

Here the need of providing the right education to people and health services and provide to the job to people '.
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Akansha said:   7 years ago
Rather than a one-child policy, India should go for not more than two child policy.

I strongly agree with the fact that increased population causes many problems but having only one child will also create some small issues. A child will not have any siblings. He/she will be unaware of the love and bonding that a sibling shares. In childhood, if jis/her parents are busy in some work and they leave the children home, he will feel very lonely, he will not have anyone to play with him/her.

In fact, in 2014 a law has been passed in some states for not having more than two children.

Having children is a family personal matter and if the government is imposing any policy then the family may also not feel good about it for one child policy but they can consider the two child policy.

Apart from this policy, proper education should be given to family especially women of the house for proper family planning. So that the population can be controlled in an affected manner.

It is predicted that by 2025 India will cross the population of China which is a matter of serious concern and something needs to be done.

So, two child policy can be accepted by families rather than one child policy.

Thank you.

Have a great day ahead.
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Abhijit said:   7 years ago
China is well known for having instituted a one-child policy back in 1979. While the policy was effective in stemming population growth, critics argue that the side effects of the policy have created many societal problems in China today.

In a country like India, population planning can only be achieved by formulating and implementing a strong policy, particularly among less educated women. Women should be encouraged so that they can learn about family planning. Obviously, women\'s empowerment has to be the central theme in population planning policies.

Another fact is that, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, achieved declines of fertility without a one-child policy. These two states maintained healthy sex ratio without one child policy.

One child policy cannot be implemented in India in the same way as in China, education and persuasion methods are appropriate and necessary.

Therefore, education about family planning is necessary to control population growth. No need to implement one child policy.

In 2014, 12 Indian states have passed laws to restrict Indian citizens from having no more than two children.
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Bhanu Prasad said:   7 years ago
Yes, India should impose this law as soon as possible. Nowadays The world's foremost problem is population. Especially, Its been a headache for India always. China has been trying repeatedly to control the population. But India has no effort since independence. Not only citizens of India but also the government has never been taken it as a serious matter.

So for the future, we should take steps towards the population. All citizens must follow the one-child policy before waiting the government will install this policy. In communal countries, It is easy to initiate something but its far opposite in democracies like India. After the government's decision People has to respect the decision's of govt and obey. The Government should make strict laws and policies upon this matter to promulgate over citizens, the world's most defiant public ever in a democratic country.

It will help the government to manage the shelter, food, mobility, pollution, and to develop education, industry, agriculture and external imports and exports.
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Dhananjay said:   4 years ago
Hi all.

Feeling great to be part of this gd. The topic we are discussing that whether India should have a one-child policy or not?

Suddenly introducing a one-child policy would create a negative impact on citizens. So, first, we have to introduce a two-child policy, & we have to analyze it by a survey that whether its working or not. As we all are aware that, in India, no one likes to follow rules even the person makes this rule into an act. So, in India there are lot of issues are there like poverty, illiteracy, corruption, etc. First, we have to eradicate corruption, definitely, when your country will be under good administration, the country will develop. The literacy rate will improve, citizens mindset will change, then automatically it will lead to less population. Being an optimistic person, I am bound to say, we can't pick this one-child policy as our topmost priority.

Definitely, the reason behind this policy to make our country developed. But it's just a daydream.

Thanks.
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Digvijaysingh shivaji londhe said:   1 year ago
Hello I am Digvijay.

So basically we all are gathered here to have a group discussion on the topic - should India have a one-child policy.

I am not in favor of this policy. I think we need to understand the situation and why we need to apply the policy. Nowadays situations are people are jobless, but that does not mean they are useless they also can do well, and live their lives happily.

So rather than see towards that policy we should to go for upgrading new technology that will eventually upgrade the youth. And it's not limited to population. We know countries like China, Japan are the countries with large populations they are in a way better position than compared with other countries because of technology.

So basically rather than looking for such policies we should go for the developing the the more areas where the innovation can be happens, there are mass awareness programs we can arrange so that will helpful for todays youth to be innovative look, find more opportunities.
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Sadia Sheikh said:   6 years ago
I'd like to put forward my point of view, here which is if we try to look at the issue in a horizontal manner there are some major drawbacks as well as advantages on implementing such a policy.

Advantages being that it's going to put a hold on the rapidly rising population which is something to be gravely looked into. Since adopting a one child policy is definitely going to provide with more amount of resources to be utilized by the people. Furthermore, a lesser amount of wastage, lesser consumption.

Whereas, if we trying focusing on the drawbacks it does make it very lonely for a single child to be in a family. Makes it worse, if both the parents are working. To have a sibling is something all of us prefer. Moreover, when the parents grow older, the responsibility to look after them can be divided among their children. Given the kind of work pressure and busy life, most people have in today's time. Which does make life easier for all of them? That's it from my side. Thank you.
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Porus said:   3 years ago
Well, population growth in India is declined quite well.

And India possesses 47 per cent of world's youth. If we look at China, which once was suffering from a population explosion, now giving incentives to its citizens to get married and produce babies.

Because in the past years, China has drastically alleviated poverty from its country and since 1978 it has got 75 per cent of its under-poverty population to the middle class or upper.

So it is simple to understand when there is less poverty or no poverty there is automatically less population growth rate.

It is to be believed that if govt fixed its policies to help people under the poverty line, the country's issues like population growth and gender inequality will automatically either disappear or will reduce remarkably.

Or otherwise it's easy to say that it is unemployment because of its population growth. And this is simply to hide the negligence of the government itself.
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Sakshi Agarwal said:   6 years ago
I am not agree with the one child policy and I will not support this statement that India should have one child policy because as per my opinion, single child may be depressed some children do not share their feelings their belongings with their parents they think thousand times or sometimes we cannot share our feelings with friends also. We all want siblings with whom we can share what we think and what is right this can be first point.

And second one is that I know everyone have feelings in India people are emotional parents want from their children all is love and emotions and in any case if one children did not support in their old age or in any condition then they have another one. And of course why India only by not every country should think about this.

But population matters very much for our nation our livelihood agriculture so people have to do children to see future as well.

Thankyou.
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Tashu Singla said:   1 month ago
Hello everyone, as our topic of discussion is "Should India have a one child policy".
According to my point of view, every coin has two sides; similarly, this statement also has two sides. First, that's true if this policy is imposed, then our population will be in control, and our country will run in a more efficient manner. Those parents who cannot afford to many expenses of their children will face fewer problems in their parenting. Somewhere, our country will look more managed.

But on the other side, I also do have this perspective that imposing a one-child policy will hinder those creative minds which could have done very well if they could come and live their life.

So in the end, I would like to say that instead of focusing on these policies, we should focus on how to exponentially increase our incomes, control expenses and how to be an asset for our country instead of being a liability.
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