Hours after Narendra Modi tweeted about the issue of population explosion, activists from the southern region highlighted the huge mismatch in population growth between the north and the south.
Bengaluru/ Trivandrum: India’s southern states are quite perturbed by the call for a national ‘scheme’ to control population explosion, an idea expressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech last week. Their concern is, if there are any further measures to control population in the south, their voice will completely be overshadowed by that of the north.
The population debate has also, unexpectedly perhaps, kicked off a larger debate on the contributions of each state, besides every state’s share in policy-making as well as national wealth – to the point of raising questions on whether the government should stop using population as the main parameter to decide benefits.
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