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Summary: Indian Association on Population and Development organized the Debate Competition on Population and Environment. The final round of competition was held in Delhi on 26 November 2005. The event covered the northern region on India in the year 2005. The participating universities were organized the first phase at their university level competition and winner of that round were qualify for the second and final phase of competition.
The subject of the National level debate was "Rapid Population Growth Leads to environmental Degradation and Slow National Development". Overall, the performance of participating teams was excellent. The Minister of Health and Family Welfare of Delhi Govt. Dr. Yoganand Shastri inaugurated the debate; he shows concern for environmental exploitation and degradation as a result of rapid population growth. The environmental degradation has its global repercussions like ozone depletion. The environmental degradation has its repercussions from global level to local level. He expressed hope in the youth of today and gave a call to them to realize the implications of this scenario and overcome the present situations with their responsible behaviour towards environment and population so that India can achieve its goal of population stabilization and sustainable development. The team prizes won by Punjab Technical University, Jallandhar; (first prize) and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi was the Runner-up. In individual category the first prizes went to Mr.Jagnoor Singh of Punjab Technical University, Jallandhar; second prize won by Ms.Mahima Subhramani, G.G.S. Indraprastha University, Delhi and third prize by Mr. Varun Garg, Punjab Technical University, Jallandhar. Dr.S.S. Sisodia, Former Union Minister and Vice-Chairman, IAPPD presided and Mr. Manmohan Sharma coordinated the event