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‘All work & no play triggers population boom’

While India’s population growth rate is 1.63, Rajasthan’s population growth rate is 1.93

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At a time when demographers are estimating that India’s population could surpass that of China around 2024, making our nation the most populated country in the world, Rajasthan minister is blaming the urge to reproduce on the ‘utter lack of entertainment’.

Banshidhar Bajiya, MoS, Medical and Health came up with this explanation in his address during a state-level programme in Jaipur coinciding with the world population day on Tuesday.

State health minister Kali Charan Saraf, Jaipur Zila Pramukh Mool Chand Meena, Principle secretary, Medical and Health, Veenu Gupta, Secretary Naveen Jain were among those blessed souls who got to hear the incredible take of the minister. “Our observations show that places where people aren’t having sufficient means of entertainment reflect a higher than average rate of population growth,” Bajiya said speaking his mind.

But Bajiya wasn’t done yet. Replying to the query from media persons who questioned the lack of entertainment argument in the age of Direct to Home TV, mobiles and internet network, he made a confident prediction. He said, when people will find round-the-clock entertainment, the upcoming census shall reflect a lower rate of population growth in these areas. Rajasthan has a higher annual population growth rate than the country’s. While India’s population growth rate is 1.63, Rajasthan’s population growth rate is 1.93.

This isn’t the first time the argument claiming reproductive procreation is inversely proportional to the availability of means of entertainment. In the year 2009, the then central health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad also had expressed similar views about population boom endorsed so confidently by minister Bajiya on Tuesday.

At that time, emphasizing on the need of electricity supply in villages, the Congress leader had gone on to advising people to watch TV instead of having sex as then health minister in UPA government. “In old era people had no other entertainment other that sex, so the number of children were high.

Today, TV is the biggest source of entertainment. Hence, it is important that there is electricity in every village so that people watch TV till late in the night. By the time the serials are over, they’ll be too tired to have sex and will fall asleep. Then they won’t get a chance to reproduce. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies,” he had said.

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