ENGLISH ESSAY ‘Population
Explosion’ FROM 350 TO 400 WORDS
There has been an alarming increase in the
population of Pakistan since the partition of the country. The massive increase
in population can jeopardize the safety and security of the country and this
increase is setting at naught all our plans and schemes. The existing
population in Pakistan is not commensurate with its resources and
overpopulation is surely an open invitation to poverty in a country where
industry and agriculture are still backward. The need of the hour is that population
should be regulated strictly in conformity with the available resources.
The increase in population can be attributed to the
fall in death rate and the rise in life expectancy. Infant mortality has gone
down due to the availability of better medical facilities. The rapidly
increasing population has given birth to the twin problems of unemployment and
food.
Various factors are responsible for the growing
population. Poverty and ignorance leads to more and more children in the lower
strata of the society. Moreover, in some rural areas, a man with many sons and
grandsons is considered to be lucky. The birth of a girl in the said areas is
said to be a liability while the birth of a son is an occasion to be
celebrated. Couples having only daughters may go on producing children year
after year until they get a son who alone can bring them salvation or mocha by
performing their last sites.
Early marriage among Pakistanis makes the couples
stay together at the most fertile period of their lives and these results into
a team of children. The ignorant masses believe that every new child brings his
own luck with him and the manual workers look upon the arrival of a male child
as an addition to their earning capacity.
It is necessary to tackle the problem of over-population
in the interest of the economic prosperity of all Pakistanis. Family planning,
whose object is to control the size of a family and to prevent the births of
too many children, can play a useful role in this regard. Nothing should be
left to chance and people should be made to realize that the need of planning a
family is to have a better standard of living. Government hospitals and primary
health centers should make a commendable contribution to family planning.
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