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          India Must Explore Non-Coercive                     Population Control january 6, 2022   |       Recently, the Janasankhya Samadhan Foundation, an organisation advocating population-control measures,  wrote to the Prime Minister  and the Union Home Minister seeking the implementation of a two-child policy across the country.   A draft bill regarding this was already introduced in the state of Uttar Pradesh in July.  The UP government announced a  new population stabilisation draft bill  that aimed to reduce the State’s total fertility rate from 2.7 per thousand to 1.9 per thousand by 2030. This draft law incentivised a two-child or less norm and laid down disincentives for those having more than two children. Uttar Pradesh is not alone: 12 states in India have introduced a two-child policy.   We would argue that su...