Problem number one
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Population problem is number one problem of Bangladesh. Our population was about 75 million in 1971, but within a time span of 40 years, it has now crossed 160 million. Such a huge population with a growth rate of about 1.5%, huddled up in an area of only 1, 47,570 sq. km, poses the greatest challenge to all of our development efforts. Acute poverty, widespread unemployment, food shortage, deteriorating law and order situation, illiteracy, environmental disruption etc are the main problems we are trying to solve, but we should always keep it in mind that our ever-increasing population is the mother of all these problems. Therefore, our govt. should immediately adopt a well-defined population policy having a time-frame for achieving zero growth rate within the shortest possible time. As one of the steps to reach the goal, a massive public awareness drive especially among the poor should be launched and continued with the help of all govt. and non-govt. agencies, NGOs, intellectuals and members of the civil society.
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