Jammu, Sept. 25 -- 135 million babies are born every year in the world. On an average 70000 babies are born every day in India. Every year 2.55 crore children are born in India alone. No country in the world has unlimited resources. India too is not an exception to this. India occupies just 2.45% of the geographical area of world but home to 18% (140 crore) of the world population. India has only 4% of the available water resources in the world. It took 2 million years for the world population to reach 100 crore, but surprisingly in just 220 years (1804 to 2024), the world population will increase from 100 crore to about 800 crore.

Today total population of India is around 140 crore. 1000 years ago, India's population was 7.5 crore which...