Population Explosion
BIMARU States Acronym
BIMARU is an acronym for the states BI: Bihar; MA: MP, R: Rajasthan, and U: UP. The acronym was formed by Ashish Bose, an economist from the 1980s. BIMARU (Bimar) in Hindi means sick. The economist framed the acronym to ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2023
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs • India Nation & States Current Affairs
Vision India@2047
The Government of India is to finalize the 2047 plan by May 2022. The plan is being framed by a Sectoral Group of Secretaries. That is, the sectaries are from ten different sectors. They will draw a plan that will ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Exploding Human Population: Short Essay
The world population in 1750 AD was 791 millions. This was the pre-industrialized world and the sweeping changes brought on by the steam engine, power looms and machinery happened 10 years later in 1760. By 2050, the world population is ..
NITI Aayog Draft Roadmap to stabilise population, family planning and birth rate
NITI Aayog is currently working on a draft roadmap that aims at creating a vision for the country to help stabilize population, birth rate and family planning. In order to achieve this, on December 20, 2019, NITI Aayog along with ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Assam: No Govt. jobs for people with more than 2 children
On October 21, 2019, the Assam Cabinet decided that no Government jobs will be provided to persons with more than 2 children after 1 January 2021. In September 2017, the Assam government had passed the “Population and Women Empowerment Policy ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
11 July: World Population Day observed
World Population Day is observed every year across the world on 11 July. Its observance is aimed to shift focus towards urgency and significance of issues related to population. About World Population Day Background: The World Population Day was established ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019
World Population Prospects 2019
The World Population Prospects 2019 report by the United Nations makes the following observations: The world’s population is expected to increase by two billion people from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050. More than half of the projected ..
Plea in Supreme Court in favour of Two Child Policy
A plea filed lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay in Supreme Court has sought the declaration of the ‘two-child norm’ as a mandatory criterion for government jobs, aids and subsidies and urged that the law dealing with the condition for recognition of a ..