Overpopulation in India

Last week, I watched a documentary on "world in balance". It talked about overpopulation in India and the trememdous drop in number of babies born in Japan. After watching the documentary, I went on to research on the overpopulation in India.
The world population reached 6 billion on October 12, 1999, and is expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050. India is the second most populated country after China on this planet and is on it's way to being number one within the next fifty years. The government is very concerned about the size of India's population and has focused tremendous amounts of energy into combating India's growth.
India's population reached one billion on 1999. However, the poverty continues to bug India, 8 million people die each year because they are too poor to survive.
What is the cause of the population boom in India?
First of all, the education level. Most of the people in India are uneducated. They have no knowledge on birth control and spread of sexual diseases. In India, living standards is extremely low, thus the spread of diseases is very rampant. Families in India will thus demand the wives to give birth to more children as many could not survive to the age of adolescent.
Not only that, gender discrimination in India is still going strong. Husbands and mother-in-laws often demand the wives to give birth to only boys. When the can't produce male decendents, they are "forced" to give birth to more though they are reluctant about it.
Next is that most of the Indians have no knowledge on birth control. They are not taught how to use condoms and contraceptive pills to avoid getting pregnant.
To solve the overpopulation problem in India, the most important solutions is to educate them. WRONG MINDSETS must be changed. We must educate the people there, especiallt the males that giving birth to females is equally good. Not only that, wu must teach the people on birth control. Condoms and contraceptive pills must be made available to the public. Developed countries should help to educate the people from third world countries on how to use the birth control measures.