By the middle of this century, 20 percent of the world’s working population—that is, people in the age group of 15 to 59 years—will be in India. but will it do,
The United Nations has formally announced that in the next year i.e. 2023, India will become the most populous country in the world. The first estimate was for this to happen in 2028. But China’s population fell faster than previously estimated. Therefore, now after a year, India will get the title of the most populous country. Now the question is whether this title is such, which will open new possibilities for India? Or is this a responsibility, which our policy makers have not fulfilled properly, then this fact will become a big challenge for this country and its people? The general principle is that population, if equipped with productive capacity, constitutes an aspect of the development and prosperity of a country or society. But a population deprived of education, knowledge, technology and big dreams actually becomes such a burden on the resources, that the fabric of the country concerned can crumble.
It has been told that by the middle of this century, 20 percent of the world’s working population – ie people in the age group of 15 to 59 years – will be in India. If this part has the capacity to meet the demands of modern science and technology, then for the next three to six decades, India will be a country without which the world will not be able to imagine its progress. But the worrying aspect is the trends we are seeing here. For example, women are falling out of our labor force. Due to this reverse trend, almost three quarters of women today are out of productive work. On the other hand, in education and in public life, a well-planned war seems to have been waged against modern knowledge and conscience. In such a situation, what hope will the industry and the technology world be able to add to the children or youth who will later become part of the working age group? These questions urgently need a national debate. But the disappointing situation is that there seems to be no possibility of such a debate. How will the possibilities related to population be realized in that situation?
