NEW DELHI: Expressing concern that rising population growth and demographic changes are posing challenges to the goal of Viksit Bharat, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced the formation of a high-powered committee, which will be mandated to “comprehensively” look into these challenges and give recommendations. In her interim budget speech, Sitharaman said that a high-powered committee will be formed to extensively consider the challenges of fast population growth and demographic changes. The committee will be mandated to make recommendations for addressing these challenges comprehensively about the goal of Viksit Bharat, she added. Projections indicate that the size of the Chinese population could drop below 1 billion before the end of the century. We must plan for investing in the 360 million young population and the increasingly aging population's needs,” she said.

Source: Indian Express February 02, 2024 10:25 UTC