Population  

What’s NPR? How different is it from the NCR? Are the two connected? Is NPR necessary and how does it benefit the government and the people? Let us break it all down for you. 

The Modi cabinet today approved funds to the tune of Rs 8500 crore in order to update and improve the National Population Register (NPR).

Conversions both forced and tricked are increasingly becoming a menace and there is a sustained effort by both missionaries and terror groups to rope in Hindu girls and convert them to Islam or Christianity.
 

According to the National Crime Records Bureau or NCRB report crime rate in India is at its lowest in the past five decades.

Delivering a key note speech ‘Inspiring A Billion Dreams : The India Opportunity’, at the Leaders Week 2019 London, Nita Ambani presented a glimpse into how young India has taken massive strides in the world of sports and is poised to become a sporting powerhouse with over 600 million of its billion plus population under the age of 25coupled with a fast growing economy

Union home minister Amit Shah spoke about census 2021 and the National Population Register. He said that this time the Census will be conducted digitally, through the mobile app. He also pressed on the need for a multipurpose card that can be utilised for all benefits including Aadhaar, Passport, Pan card etc

Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena MP and the party spokesman, said that their party welcomed PM Narendra Modi's pitch for smaller families and said that even late Bal Thackeray always supported it

PM Modi’s exhortation to citizens to plan families and eulogising a section of society for the same as ‘patriotism’ has set a debate in motion.

According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tiger census, the tiger population in the country has grown from 1,400 in 2014 to 2,977 in 2019.

The forest area where the presence of tigers can be found has doubled since 2014 in Madhya Pradesh. This International or Global Tigers Day has given the state government hope that the numbers of tigers have gone up in the territory.

China, the smoking giant looking to regulate use of e-cigarettes, has over 300 million tobacco smokers already, which is nearly a third of the world's total smoking population
 

According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) study in 2016, 14 of the world's 20 most polluted cities were from India. The root of all these problems is overpopulation.

According to the recent report by the United Nations Population Fund, India's population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2% between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual growth rate of China.

The NITI Aayog report also states that 40% of the population, in cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, will not have drinking water by 2030.