Why was the government forced to take up serious measures to check the population growth rate?

Why was the government forced to take up serious measures to check the population growth rate?
  1. Decrease in death rate and maternal mortality rate
  2. Increase in number of people in reproducible age
  3. Lack of basic requirements
  4. All of the above

Solution

Such an alarming growth rate could lead to an absolute scarcity of even the basic requirements, i.e., food, shelter and clothing, in spite of significant progress made in those areas.

Asked in: NCERT

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