Tourists visit Badachu Park decorated with red lanterns in Beijing, China, October 2, 2019. Editor's note: The declining fertility rate is a challenge to China's economic and social development, but the central authorities are making big efforts to meet the challenge, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. China's fertility rate has been continuously falling over the past few years, …
Sekher heads the Departmentof Population Policies and Programmes at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. We have almost reached replacement level fertility in most parts of India except in a few bigger States like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. However, the total wanted fertility rate in India was 1.8 children per woman in 2015-16. In fact, the Government of India …
The 2021 Assembly election in West Bengal is going to be historic because the Bharatiya Janata Party has for the first time emerged as the main challenger to the incumbent government. Bogey of infiltration If there had been a substantial infiltration in West Bengal, then the decadal growth rate of population in the State would have been significantly higher than …
