Essay Over Population In Bangladesh

Name-Ismat Ara Sharin

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Expository Essay

OVER POPULATION OF BAGLADESH

Bangladesh is a small country with excessive population .Bangladesh is also a developing country .One of the major problem of Bangladesh is Over Population .When the population becomes more compared to the country can sustain is called Over Population .It is seen that population of Bangladesh is 147,570 Kilometers square .So population of Bangladesh is huge compared to its area .As a result many problems arise.

Population started to grow from a very early age. So population survey was done. Population survey was first done in year 1973 .At that time population of Bangladesh was 75 million, which was noteworthy. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a politician of Bangladesh proposed a public rally on 26th March 1975 at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka .In that rally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur said, “We must not forget that our population is increased by 3 million every year 55 thousand square miles. If our population goes by 3 million every year, in about 25 to 30 years we will have no land to cultivate anymore .Man will eat man .We must adopt population control ,family planning ” . (Saimon)

Rapid growth was seen in Dhaka & Chittagong cities compared to other cities .On additional , Dhaka being the capital made the most gains in population increasing from 335,928 in 1951 to the most gains in population increasing from 335,928 in 1951 to 3.4 million 1981. Chittagong was second in the growth rate. It started growing from 289,981 to 1.4 million. (Report in