As the population of a place grows, the quality of life goes down and that brings out the survival instinct, which causes people to go to any length to meet their needs. India's corruption does stem from that, supported by bad policies in the past. Rules are ignored when it's a question of survival. Every family is burdened with the need to earn more and more to support the needs in a comfortable manner. That leads to taking the easiest way to earn money and right and wrong becomes secondary. This is where corruption begins, which leads to a self-feeding circle of wrong and more of it, coming suddenly to the limelight as multi-crore scams, shocking the entire nation out of its self-induced ignorance.

It is because of high population that there is no dignity of labour in India. If a skill can be acquired without paying highly for it (which includes most skilled labour), its not worth paying a lot for. This is again incorrect and causes a lot of unhappiness and need to give in to corruption.

As time passes, our population just keeps growing. But, our natural resources are not. To top it,  we are not using other newer resources like solar energy as much as we should. Instead, we have been milking most out of current ones to the point of abusing them in the name of economy of time and financial profit.

Mandur in Bangalore is a stark example which had hit the headlines recently for the  land abuse our waste is creating( http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/a-haze-of-smoke-envelops-mandur-landfill/article4408443.ece ). Segregation of waste at source should be mandatory and a part of Indian culture the way it is a part of Japanese culture. Our severely polluted rivers  and landfills are a clear example of our negligence which will come back and bite us bad in the near future. 

Increasing the cost of plastic to INR 2 is not enough to get the average Indian to think beyond it. One needs to enforce non-usage of plastic for grocery items. We survived without it a decade back. We can survive even now. If wet waste is collected from door to door, we do not need to store wet waste in plastic covers because we can dump from our dustin to the big collection bin directly. We can carry cloth and jute bags for grocery shopping. In Ladakh, plastic is banned. Its indeed a very good example which we need to get the rest of India to follow. Plastic when thrown away unabashedly causes land and water pollution because it just stays and clogs. Even when collected, if we ever could from all the varied places it pollutes, if non-recyclable, it jus stays. Burning it causes harmful gases to be released. Strict laws are needed to enforce its non-usage. Best is to stop its production. Have very high quality plastic which costs 25 INR or more a piece available at super-markets for specific needs.

Only few examples and remedies can be quoted here. In effect, India needs stricter anti-pollution policies because as a nation, our population ensures that we can generate more waste than most other countries. . Anti-pollution government machinery should be made a category in the parliament like we have finance, home, defence etc. This is such a vast topic that there is a lot of work to do in this.

Pollution is also high population's baby, just a massive baby which can kill the mother(population).

Research has revealed that population growth is maximum by people of the poorer sections of society. They should be provided contraceptives along with Rashan. Also, they need to be rewarded when they do not make more than 2 kids to ensure that they want to follow the rule. With medical advances, people live forever. Coupling that with  more kids per couple is a like a population explosion India really needs to avoid.There needs to be an anti-population movement in the country to educate people and change the way they think on it.

India definitely has big issues to deal with now. But, this is a seed issue which needs to be worked on simultaneously to prevent the birth of more problems in future. To lead more holistic lives, value for life is a must. With high population and pollution, life's value and joy of living it both goes down exponentially.

India's brain-drain has been mainly because of lack of opportunities and quality of life. When one thinks hard, it will point to the same culprit and its offshoot corruption

Nature knows how to set things right. One incident like Badrinath or a tsunami and multiple epidemics can cut down population and awaken people at the same time. But, do we really need Mother Nature to beat the daylights out of us? It'll add agony to our lives. We can learn ahead and save multiple future disasters. Anything in huge numbers loses value and quality. Can we please respect life and use our intelligence for a better world than an overcrowded world.