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(v) It creates shortage of civic and infrastructural facilities:
Shortages of housing, lack of water and power, overcrowded
transport systems, inadequate schools and colleges, etc makes
the lives of common man unhappy and miserable.
Thus, a fast-rising population in a capital defi cient low income
country like India by being an obstacle actually retards growth.
FEATURES OF THE INDIAN POPULATION
(i) The crisis of numbers: India, as the second most populated
nation in the world, next only to China, is confronted with the
problem of population explosion. India’s population ...