Will India's rapidly growing population become an obstacle to its economic development in the future?

most parts of India have a tropical monsoon climate, and the annual precipitation is over 1mm. The total amount of water resources ranks seventh in the world, about 2 trillion cubic meters per year. However, due to the high population density, the per capita water resources are not much, less than 2, cubic meters/year, which is lower than that of China, and it is already a water-deficient country according to the United Nations standards.

At present, the development of water resources in the Ganges River basin has reached its limit, and the water shortage in the northwest India-Pakistan border and the arid areas inside the Indian Peninsula is even more serious.

South Asia is also a monsoon climate, and the driest season is also when the river is short of water. If India draws water from the Brahmaputra River to fight drought on a large scale, it will easily cause disputes with Bangladesh downstream. Therefore, it would be nice if several large reservoirs can be built in the upper reaches of the river to store some floods, even if it is only 12 billion, so that the runoff of the Brahmaputra River can be increased by one or two thousand cubic meters per second in the dry season, and India and Bangladesh will no longer allocate water resources. However, the section south of the Great Himalayan watershed is only a tail of the Yarlung Zangbo River. At the entrance of the Grand Canyon, the runoff of the Yajiang River has reached about 12 billion cubic meters per year, accounting for 3/4 of the whole river and 1/5 of the total flow of the Brahmaputra River. More importantly, the excellent dam sites in the Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputra river basin are mainly concentrated in the valleys of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which India is eager to reach, and only a few small dams can be built in the Indian-controlled area, which is unfavorable for India to control the water resources of the Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputra river. Therefore, if China does not cooperate with us and we don't want to make disputes with Bangladesh, India can only build the main water diversion canal bigger and bigger, and it is best to pass 1, waters to lead the flood of Brahmaputra River to the reservoirs in Ganges or Deccan Plateau rivers for storage. Anyway, there are plenty of people in India, and it can always be built by digging slowly.

Due to resource endowment and economic development level, India is short of oil, coal and electricity. However, due to underdeveloped industry and agriculture, low level of electrification and automation, and many farmers and urban poor can't afford electricity, or few appliances don't use much electricity. India's per capita electricity consumption is only over 3 kWh per year, so the "electricity shortage" seems to be less serious than China. However, with the population growth, industrial and agricultural development and the improvement of people's living standards, India's demand for energy and electricity will also increase exponentially.

Although the northeastern part of India, dominated by Assam, is rich in oil, land, forest and water resources. However, it is a relatively poor and backward corner of India, which makes the local people feel exploited and increases the sense of alienation between the northeastern States of India and New Delhi. At the same time, there are a large number of immigrants from Bihar, Bangladesh and Nepal, who are overpopulated, to the relatively sparsely populated Assam Plain and surrounding mountainous areas. They compete with the local people for land, water and employment opportunities, and to a great extent control the local politics and economy, resulting in many contradictions with the local people.

There is a strong demand for independence or autonomy in northeastern India. There are more than a dozen anti-government armed groups, large and small, such as the famous Assam Revolutionary United Front, demanding the establishment of an Assam state in Assam. Since independence in 1947, more than 5, people have died in conflicts in northeastern India. However, these so-called "anti-government armed forces" are still quite supported by the masses, because they belong to Robin Hood-style figures who rob the rich and help the poor, and they mainly fight against some rich people and government agencies, and do little harm to civilians. When the government troops came, they hid in the deep mountains; When the government troops left, they went down the mountain and attacked the police station and local government agencies.

The northeast of India also involves the issue of India-Bangladesh relations. The relationship with Bangladesh is second only to Pakistan in India's neighboring relations. India and Bangladesh have border conflicts, river diversion problems and cross-border immigration problems. Anyway, there are many problems.

in order to suppress anti-government guerrillas, maintain public order, stop tribal and caste massacres, and defend oil facilities, the Indian government has stationed heavy troops in the northeast. However, the exclusive power of Indian soldiers in the northeast region has aroused the local people's antipathy to New Delhi, and triggered waves of violence against violence. The garrison in northeastern India, which is tired of coping with social security problems, is beyond the reach of the illegally occupied southern China (India called Arunachal Pradesh) to a certain extent.