Supreme Court issues notice to Central Government on population control plea

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central government on a petition seeking direction to the Centre to frame rules regulations and guidelines to effectively mitigate the problem of overpopulationA bench of Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy sought a response from the government and tagged the matter along with similar pending pleasThe petition filed by Dandi Swami Jeetendranand Saraswatee General Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti stated that every year population is increasing but the natural resources are limited and cannot sustain the everincreasing populationThe State cannot look another way round when there is a drastic increase in unemployment and poverty limitation of food supply health care facilities etc added the PILThe PIL sought direction to the Central government to frame effective rules regulations and guidelines in order to protect the fundamental rights of millions of citizens of India due to the problem of overpopulationIt said that overpopulation is one of the most significant factors giving rise to several serious problems adversely affecting the quality of life of millions of Indian citizensAlso Read Manipur Assembly adopts resolutions to establish population commission implement NRCThe plea also sought direction to the government to declare the first Sunday of every month as Health Day to spread awareness about overpopulation and for distribution of contraceptive pills condoms vaccines etc to EWS and BPL families with polio vaccinesIn the alternative direct the Law Commission of India to prepare a comprehensive Report on Population control measures within three months and submit the same to the Respondents government for due consideration the plea addedThe petitioner said he has realised The basic fundamental rights like the Right to live with human dignity Right to clean air Right to drinking water Right to health Right to shelter Right to livelihood and Right to education guaranteed under the Constitution will remain elusive unless the Respondents give due consideration to the proposals made by the National Commission to Review the working of the Constitution NCRWC to mitigate the problem of overpopulationAt present the population of India is close to 139 billion which is about 17837 population of the world but India has only 237 of agricultural land and only 437 drinking water of the world In the USA 10000 children are born every day whereas in India 70000 children are born every day the plea claimedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever