Question
Define the term ‘growth of population’. Describe the third (III) phase of growth of population in India.
Solution
Growth of population is the change in the number of people living in a particular area between two points of time.
Third (III) phase of growth of population :
(i) The decades are 1951-1981 .
(ii) This is the period of population explosion in India .
(iii) It was caused by a rapid fall in the mortality rate but a high fertility rate of population in the country.
(iv) It is in this period, after the Independence, that developmental activities were introduced through a centralised planning process and economy started showing up ensuring the improvement of living condition of people at large.
