Try to remember the good old days when Nepal's population was only 15 million. In fact many have started doing that with relish.

Yes, people have really started becoming nostalgic. For example, they remember the days when they could go and get relieved of the nature's call in the clean open air. And there was no fear of being kidnapped. The security level was so high. Though some high level feudal and royals may come cruising towards you on their imported cars and jeeps and run you over, the days and nights in those days were still so nice.

The current days are bad because of only one reason the population growth.


Nepal's population must have reached 30 million by now. To confirm it we will have to wait a couple of years as the official census is planned for the next year only. However, there is another way to check how fast the Nepali population is growing. For example, a baby, who was born while Makune was signing his resignation letter as the prime minister four or five months ago (depending upon when you are reading this page), is now older than about a million compatriots. That is how the number of Nepalis is growing. You don't have to be a biologist to realize that Nepalis could teach rabbits a lesson or two.

The result is that, some people say if the ongoing trend continues, Nepal will soon overtake India and China in terms of population. Think what would happen if Nepal really overtook China and India. Both of these neighbours of ours are now developing so fast on the strength of both being the two largest populated countries on earth. If Nepal snatches that distinction from these giants, would not they really be angry and do something bad to Nepal?


Or perhaps they will show what is known the world over as the Chinese or India ingenuity. You can just imagine how competitive the Indian and Chinese will be. As soon as Nepal gets within a million of India's or China's population, the Indian and Chinese governments will start a National month of baby-production campaign.Or they will introduce schemes like anyone who produces triplets gets a

free car or something like that.

Both of these countries are teeming with the creative people for coining aggressive campaign slogans.

And the analyses provided by some people is really smart. They say the power outage (known as loadshedding in Nepal) is to blame for the latest population boom. That is quite understandable. Had there been electricity, the Nepali couples would have watched TV and avoided the baby boom. Therefore, these people say that Nepal must produce more electricity and more TV channels to reduce the bed time, read, to cut the population growth rate.

We all know about the progress in these two fronts. We are making a good progress in TV channels by leaps and bounds, so to say. But we are doing pretty badly in electricity.

But wait a while. Perhaps there are still better solutions to this problem. What about the followings: