As India is a population of 1 Billion + and much of its population lives in dire poverty, should population control be a fundamental agenda item for the government health bodies? Would a smaller population mean better resources for India's peoples?

The worlds population is ever expanding with less resources to go round. What does the future hold. Scientists estimate that the population will plateau at 20 billion - what will be the state of the Earth when the population reaches this point? We are already having wars over oil, future wars are going to be over water resources and other resources too.