New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) executive meeting on Saturday passed a resolution on the population imbalance and demographic changes in the country. Emphasising that different communities are growing at different rates in the country, the RSS expressed concern over the changing demographics that it causes.
The RSS demanded government interventions to modify population policies. Senior RSS leader Krishna Gopal said, "Muslim population growth rate is higher in border areas. Eight districts in India have majority of Muslims. We demand that population policy should be modified."
Raising concern over the issue, Gopal said, "How can Hindu dominated districts become Muslim dominated? Cultural identity is being destroyed because of this. Population policy structure should not be in trouble."
According to the latest census data, the Muslim community registered a moderate 0.8 per cent growth in the 10 year period between 2001 and 2011, while Hindus population showed a decline by 0.7 per cent during the period.
As per the religious census data of 2011, released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, the total population in the country in 2011 was 121.09 crore.
Hindu population is 96.63 crores (79.8 per cent); Muslim 17.22 crores (14.2 per cent); Christian 2.78 crores (2.3 per cent); Sikh 2.08 crores (1.7 per cent); Buddhist 0.84 crores (0.7 per cent); Jain 0.45 crores (0.4 per cent), Other religions and persuasions (ORP) 0.79 crores (0.7 per cent) and religion not stated 0.29 crores (0.2 per cent).
The proportion of Muslim population to total population has increased by 0.8 percentage point (PP) in 2011, the census data said.
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