Nepal’s population problem

Population in recent years is continuously multiplying in the world. This is a burning question to the developing country like ours. The problem of over population has created a big hindrance in the path if development. Every year thousand of mouths are added to this piece if land.
There are different factors for the cause of this multiplicity. The most serious cause is no education. Majority of people are uneducated and they are very unaware of the bad effects of population. The second factor is poverty. More than 50% of our people are under poverty. Their only source of income is their hands. These people due to lack of education and poverty think that if they have more children, they can send them for work and run their families livelihood. The other most serious factor for this rapid growth is religious and social conventions. Old and uneducated people think that children are the blessing of god and they don’t like to stop producing children. Moreover thinking that a boy is the successor of the family, they keep on trying for son even if they have huge number of daughters. Besides, dowry system in the minds of people that if they have more sons more wealth enters their houses as dowries during the marriage.
Many NGOS and INGOS are at continuous work to reduce over growth of the population. They have all been struggling a fruitless fight because unless the people are educated. It is very difficult to break the social conventions about family growth and make the people understand about the evils of over population. It is therefore our first and serious effort should be to make people educated and thereby making they understand the evils of over population.