How is India controlling its ever growing population?
The good news is that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has a brilliant set of advisers, who have brought it to his attention that India has a population problem. He recently set up an Empowered Action Group (EAG) and a National Population Stabilization Fund (NPSF), partly to promote the use of contraceptives. But that probably won’t be enough. If the population keeps expanding, the government may have to follow these drastic steps: —Offer people in foreign countries a 10,000-rupee bonus if they adopt an Indian child and a 100,000-rupee bonus if they adopt an Indian adult. —Train more Indians in computer science and put them on the next boat to America. Make sure they can clearly utter at least one English sentence to ensure that they land a job. That sentence, of course, would be: “I am knowing how to program.” —Give free televisions to people in densely populated states like Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, so they have another way to entertain themselves at night. —Look
