Explanation

With 1.7% of the growth rate. India’s population could double in 33 years. Such an alarming growth rate could lead to an absolute scarcity of even the basic requirement. Therefore, the government was forced to take up serious measures to check the population growth. The most important step to overcome this problem is to motivate smaller families by using various contraceptive methods. You might have seen advertisements in the media as well as posters/bills, etc., showing a happy couple with two children with a slogan Hum Do Humare Do (we two, our two). Many couples, mostly the young, urban, working ones have even adopted ‘one child norm’. Statutory raising of marriageable age of the female to 18 years and that of males to 21 years and incentives given to couples with small families are two of the other measures taken to tackle this problem