India Must Explore Non-Coercive.....Population Control
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...