DEVELOPMENT OF POPULATION GROWTH MODELS WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO MAHARASHTRA STATE

Abstract

Almost all the developing countries are facing the problem of population growth. The population growth rate is so high that it demands the systematic study of the problem and needs to control the population so that every individual should be brought above the poverty limit line. For developing countries, though this is an impossible task to have sudden control over population growth, these countries are required to plan the long-term population policy. Of all the countries, India is the one in which it is difficult to predict about the population growth since there are several religions, environmental disparities, a wide variation in earnings and education different castes and so on. Perhaps every state in India has to be treated separately and different strategies will be required to develop the mathematical models. In the present work the most forward state in India i.e. Maharashtra is considered for the population growth study and different mathematical models are put-forth with different strategies. Solution to these mathematical models is obtained on computer treating this to be a mathematical programming problem. Effect of different variables to control the population growth is studied in detail.