He was trying to say how this great "Demographic dividend", which you call huge population, would have actually converted this population into an asset through appropriate policies and training our youth to be competent for future is now converted to a "Demographic Disaster" where everyone is left to fend for itself. That is the real sense of Atma Nirbhar our PM talks about.
It's like this, you see marble a marble, we see marble an asset.
Trust me, if anyone knows how to butcher a country's future, there is no better person than safed dadiwala!!
Just FYI, not derailing the thread.