World Population Day: India’s absolute size population will continue to increase at least until 2050 despite its near replacement level of fertility in 2020.
On World Population Day, it is important to underline that continuous update of population register data can produce ‘gold standard demographic data’, leading to improvement in socio-economic indicators.
While nationwide lockdown is unavoidable and is a wise decision to contain the spread of the virus, there is a need to address the possibility of an unintended baby boom among poor and vulnerable groups.
But the threat posed by immigration is real and Indigenous people of Assam need constitutional safeguard.
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