India will overtake China as the world's biggest nation, but is it ready to be the next global superpower?
ABCThere are more than 8 billion people, and counting, spread out across Earth. While the Indian government says its family planning program is "target-free and voluntary", experts like Ms Muttreja say India needs men to be more involved and more engaged in contraception. India was the first country in the world to introduce family planning and population control methods, but the forced sterilisation scheme is now seen as a dark legacy of Indira Gandhi's government. In India's north-eastern state of Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmam announced a two-child policy claiming that population control was the only way to "eradicate poverty and illiteracy" among Muslim people. "Ultimately, as a society moves forward, the development of women and children are real markers of advanced society," the UN Population Fund's Jaydeep Biswas says.