In India a similar policy of birth control during the Emergency Period created excesses on people and eventually in the next parliamentary elections the ruling party suffered heavy losses.

On the economic front too much of stress on poverty removal interferes with attempts to raise national income and too much of stress on growth is often associated with increasing headcount ratio of poverty. One cannot solve all problems of society. In the recent times there is a growing realization that in contemporary society it is becoming more painful to deal with problems created by application of “solutions” to problems of yesteryears than to deal with the problems themselves. The threats of nuclear disasters and anxiety about risks, problems of disposal of nuclear and solid wastes, maintaining law and order in anonymous, urban agglomerations and increasing alienation and crime are very much real.