Antony Crasta, Mangalore/Sydney Australia

Any money spent by the Government and Social Organisations towards family planning and improving the literacy, etc. is more than welcome and should be widely acclaimed and applauded. While India has made rapid progress in the fields of industrialisation, scientific and technological fields during the past 60 years since the independence, the various Governments in power since then have not been successful in containing the massive population growth in the same proportion, due to which, sadly, all people have not been able to reap the benefits of this massive economic growth and prosperity.

While the rich and middle class people have vastly improved their lot, life style and standard of living considerably, the poor people have been left far behind, the main reason, they, being mostly illiterate, have not been making any noticeable efforts to restrict the number of children they would have by resorting to family planning measures. A large portion of this money should go to and fruitfully utilized in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan etc. where there is more illiteracy, poverty and population growth in comparision to the other States.

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