Population is the main reason for many problems. India occupies 2.4% of the world’s landed area and supports over 17.5% of the world’s population. India is projected to be the world’s most populous country by 2025. Population explosion is a curse and is damaging for the development of India. An increasing population is quickly using up the resources the country has, leading to deforestation and pollution of air and water. Another list of problems associated with increasing population is poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and malnourishment.

Vanadurgi Foundation is initiating several programmes to spread the message that a small family is good in every way. In this endeavour, we educate people about the benefits of small families; we organise donations for small families with single children; we provide free books, clothes and other essential items to the children of small families; we intend to provide health insurance for the parents of single children. The Foundation, through its rural development programmes, is creating a lot of jobs for the rural population, including women, as this increases their family income and creates a secure and positive feeling with financial growth, which in turn encourages them to have small families.

The Foundation educates rural people by organising village-level programmes. We tell people about population-related problems and how small families will help their financial growth. Our volunteers in villages are working at grassroot level, educating young people and their parents to stop early marriages, which is said to be one of the main reasons for population growth. The Foundation participates in various local programmes to spread the news of population growth and its related problems. The Foundation, along with its associates, is requesting the government to bring a law to limit two children for a family, and is also urging the government to withdraw all government facilities to non-complying families as a step towards the same. The Foundation further provides incentives, awards and priorities to families with single children. It also supports the NGOs that are engaged in the promotion of family planning with incentives.