Seems that there are 70,000 child labor in Uttarakhand, a hill state carved out of Uttar Pradesh about eight years ago, with its capital in Dehradun. If this is in one small state then there must be millions in the whole of India. There is only one reason for this depressing statistic and that is unrestrained population growth. Most people in this state are poor as is the infrastructure. Corruption is endemic. Since it became a separate state it got a separate government with a large numbers of politicians and civil servants, all of whom roam around in official cars with police protection. To pay for such criminal waste taxes are astronomically high. A bottle of beer costing Rs. 40 in Delhi costs Rs. 90 here. Taxi fares are more than double that of Delhi. Politicians and civil servants means crime and black money. The only investment to hide colossal amounts of black money is in property so property prices have gone up ten times in towns. Locals are selling land and using the money to buy big cars, lavish marriage parties and drinking themselves silly. Meanwhile political parties compete with each other to announce handouts for the poor to win elections. People are given cards for being ' Below the Poverty Line ' or BPL and this entitles them to more handouts. A few days ago a woman with four children, sitting in our clinic, proudly said that she could get a free MRI scan because she has a BPL card. She said this with a smile and no sense of shame that she had produced so many children while on handouts. This is the story of all of India. No country can feed unlimited numbers of people. How long before people are dying of starvation on our streets?