User:KnowledgeHegemonyPart2/Overpopulation in India

Despite becoming in recent times a major economy and nation in the global scenario, India still seriously suffers from the problem of overpopulation. To cure this problem, Indira Gandhi, the then (and now late) Prime Minister of India, had implemented a forced sterilization programme in the early 1970s but failed. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilization, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also believed to have been sterilized. This program is still remembered and criticized in India, and is blamed for creating a wrong public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmes for decades. Currently, the Government of India is being heavily crtiticised for not implementing any serious programmes and schemes at the national-level (like China's one-child policy) to curb population-growth, except running some usual programmes through mass-media on family planning and birth control methods.