India's population to surpass China's by 2025

[StingRoy]

Then start the project with 50% of urbanization, then the unbalance of the population would be solved.

China has been successfully reduced the rural population from 1 billion to 500 million in the last two decades.

Not that easy... some people prefer the peaceful lifestyle in the village. I know some of my friends after completing their higher education went back to their villages and are doing perfectly fine in managing their agricultural and small industry businesses. We just can't force people to come to the cities. What needs to be done is to allow people to lead a comfortable life in the villages by encouraging small scale enterprises.

So far only a few state governments have been able to do this successfully. If you provide people in the rural belt ample opportunities, they don't need to migrate to cities. Frankly speaking I believe the best bet for India is to encourage rural employment and give incentives to encourage business establishments locally. Once local people are involved in creating businesses around their local area, there would be an increasing acceptance to large scale industrial projects around them.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Not that easy... some people prefer the peaceful lifestyle in the village. I know some of my friends after completing their higher education went back to their villages and are doing perfectly fine in managing their agricultural and small industry businesses. We just can't force people to come to the cities. What needs to be done is to allow people to lead a comfortable life in the villages by encouraging small scale enterprises.

So far only a few state governments have been able to do this successfully. If you provide people in the rural belt ample opportunities, they don't need to migrate to cities. Frankly speaking I believe the best bet for India is to encourage rural employment and give incentives to encourage business establishments locally. Once local people are involved in creating businesses around their local area, there would be an increasing acceptance to large scale industrial projects around them.

Then just building up the efficient road infrastructure, many can still live in the rural areas, while working at the metropolitan areas.

 

[StingRoy]

Then just building up the efficient road infrastructure, many can still live in the rural areas, while working at the metropolitan areas.

There are already a lot of people working under such circumstances. We have a good overall road density, but most are not upto the standards of efficiency. All around our major cities a lot of the work force cannot afford to live in the cities, and commutes from nearby rural areas, but it is not a sustainable approach giving the rise in transportation costs that we are about to see. What needs to be encouraged is small scale rural enterprises which people can engage in apart from their seasonal agricultural activities.

People who want to work near cities will need to be provided accommodation around their places of work. Inherent urban migration will still continue, but it is something the govt shouldn't encourage in my opinion.

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

There are already a lot of people working under such circumstances. We have a good overall road density, but most are not upto the standards of efficiency. All around our major cities a lot of the work force cannot afford to live in the cities, and commutes from nearby rural areas, but it is not a sustainable approach giving the rise in transportation costs that we are about to see. What needs to be encouraged is small scale rural enterprises which people can engage in apart from their seasonal agricultural activities.

People who want to work near cities will need to be provided accommodation around their places of work. Inherent urban migration will still continue, but it is something the govt shouldn't encourage in my opinion.

One thing that is happening is that the rural areas surrounding the cities ,i.e the suburbs are slowly being transformed to urban places in several cities like Kolkata and Bengaluru. Several suburbans areas considered part of the rural countryside merely 5 years ago are now being considered within the city and there is increased migration to these places too.

The road density in many cities is still very low , traffic congestion is a persistent problem even today.

 

[prototype]

Then just building up the efficient road infrastructure, many can still live in the rural areas, while working at the metropolitan areas.

The problem is not infrastructure,the problem is education,if the authorities r succesfuly engaged in educating them about the goods of small family and the bads of big family,it will do the rest,most people do not have even basic idea about family planning and effective contraceptive measures,thats the problem.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The problem is not infrastructure,the problem is education,if the authorities r succesfuly engaged in educating them about the goods of small family and the bads of big family,it will do the rest,most people do not have even basic idea about family planning and effective contraceptive measures,thats the problem.

We are spending like 2.5% of our GDP into education which they consider still not enough, should be at least 4%.

 

[StingRoy]

One thing that is happening is that the rural areas surrounding the cities ,i.e the suburbs are slowly being transformed to urban places in several cities like Kolkata and Bengaluru. Several suburbans areas considered part of the rural countryside merely 5 years ago are now being considered within the city and there is increased migration to these places too.

The road density in many cities is still very low , traffic congestion is a persistent problem even today.

Yes Urban areas are expanding almost everywhere, my city limits have grown from 400 sq km to almost 2000 sq km.

The issue in our urban centers is not road density, rather population density and its distribution. Without a good urban planning where the industrial and residential centers are arranged to allow the most efficient transportation of the working masses, the existing infrastructure will keep struggling to keep up. Keep widening roads and they will keep filling up. A good city expansion plan needs to be chalked out with an intent to distribute residential zones all over the city with a uniform availability for housing both rich and the poor. If everyone were to commute less and less, the pressure on the road infrastructure would ease a lot. Chandigarh, Noida, Gurgaon, Navi Mumbai, New Town Kolkatta are classic examples which every other city should follow.

 

[no_name]

India still has the agricultural land to support it, the only worry is do we have enough commercial or residential land to sustain growth.

It's not enough that there is enough agricultural to support it, but that people can actually afford food. Farmers are not going to go around feeding people for free even if they have a surplus.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

There are schemes where the rural poor are getting guaranteed employment 100 days a year and so the issue of not getting food is practically over.

Children are getting free mid day meals at school.

However, what is of concern is not the quantity of food, but getting food that has nutritional value. The unfortunate part is that many feel that filling the stomach means one has had his meal.

Such an attitude will hardly remove malnutrition which is the real serious concern.

 

[cross1993]

Congratulations to India.

 

[HongWu]

According to this month's census results, India may surpass China in population soon.

Radio Australia:Asia Pacific:Story:India's population poised to overtake China

 

[casual]

india needs 1 child policy badly

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

india needs 1 child policy badly

But India also needs younger population.

 

[casual]

But India also needs younger population.

india needs to focus on keeping it's younger population feed

 

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