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Population control will prove disastrous for Karnataka: Experts
Warn that any such move will be a disaster and govt may have to soon incentivise people to have kids
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BENGALURU: At a time when policies on population control are being hotly debated, experts feel that such measures are coercive in nature and shift the focus away from real issues on hand.
Terming it a “disaster” to even think of implementing a population control policy in Karnataka, executive director of the Population Foundation of India, Poonam Muttreja, said no state needs such a policy, and, if Karnataka implements a ‘coercive’ policy like that, then the government will soon have to start offering incentives to people to populate, specially as Karnataka’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has been anyway declining from 2.5 in 1999 to 1.7 in 2020, while the prescribed TFR is 2.1.
The state government said the bill was due to the “limited ecological and economic resources at hand” which mad it “necessary and urgent that the provision of the basic necessities of human life are accessible to all citizen”.
The north-eastern state of Assam, which is also ruled by the BJP, last month announced plans for a similar measure that would withhold government benefits from families with more than two children and the state of Gujarat, another BJP state, is also reported to be considering similar legislation.
When the parliament sessions begins this month, several BJP are also expected to introduce bills on the need for population control.
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Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, July 12
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has taken exception to the one-child norm proposed in the draft population control Bill of the Uttar Pradesh government.
It has asked the UP Law Commission to “delete the one-child norm” and warned UP that it may lead to “imbalance among communities because they are known to respond differently to incentives and disincentives related to family planning and contraception”.
The right-wing organisation pointed to an “alarming growing imbalance” in states such as Assam and Kerala, “where the overall growth of population has declined”. “In both states, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of Hindus has declined far below the replacement rate of 2.1, but that of Muslims is 3.16 in Assam and 2.33 in Kerala,” it said.
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