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Rajya Sabha MP Introduces Bill To Implement Two-Child Norm Across The Country
Indian school children read in a classroom at a government school in Bagpath district in Uttar Pradesh. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
A Rajya Sabha MP on Friday (12 July) tabled a private member’s bill in the upper house which aims to implement a two-child norm across the country through a series of incentives and penalties, reports The Indian Express.
One of the restrictions which the ‘Population Regulation Bill, 2019’ seeks to impose is disallowing persons who have more than two children after the commencement of the statue from being elected as MPs, MLAs or even as representatives in local bodies.
Apart from this, the bill proposes higher interest rates and lower subsidies who violate the two child norm. Government employees would have to write an undertaking that they would not have more than two children.
Sinha clarified that his bill was not targeting any particular community, but was simply meant to “create a balance between people and resources”.
“There is also a case of regional imbalance….while the southern and western states are better off, in the northern and eastern states of India, birth control is either not accepted or not applied. So it is a multi-dimensional problem. Regional, resources, religion – all three factors are there,” he added.
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