Population control
This is in response to the letter of Mr. SN Arbab of Banani, Dhaka (DS 9 August, 2004). The former Soviet Union was the largest country in the world but it broke apart because the Economic Development did not take place equally in all those former States. Till today the population growth in the former USSR is up to the optimum level! On the other hand, the United States of America emphasised on balance economic growth simultaneously in all the 50 States, whereby the steady economic growth could cope with the increasing number of population including many new immigrants.
Our First Planning Commission was manned by Oxford and Harvard Doctorates. It was short-sightedness of the First Planning Commission that they could not introduce the Social Security or Insurance Number for the 75 million people of the new-born state, Bangladesh, who had for many generations undergone various struggles, calamities and sacrifices. Social Security or Insurance Number is not merely an identity card but in it lies the responsibility both of the population and of the government for economic growth, political stability and social security.
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