The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has suggested the Uttar Pradesh government to remove the one child policy from its draft population control bill.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has suggested the Uttar Pradesh government to remove the one child policy criterion from its draft Population Control Bill, saying it is likely to lead to imbalances among different communities and also lead to population contraction. is. . The saffron outfit has also asked the Yogi Adityanath government to remove the “anomaly” from the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021 of rewarding or punishing the child instead of the parent.
The organization’s working president Alok Kumar said in a letter, “The bill’s preamble states that it is a bill, inter alia, to stabilize the population and promote the two-child norm. Both Vishwa Hindu Parishad Agree with the objectives. Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission (UPSCL) on Monday
However, Sections 5, 6(2) and 7 of the Bill, which encourage public servants and others to have only one child in a family, “go far beyond the said objectives”.
“Therefore, we suggest the removal of Section 5, and consequential Sections 6(2) and 7 to avoid the undesirable social and economic consequences of the one child policy along with population contraction and to remove the discrepancy. -to reward or punish the child instead of the father,” Kumar said.
He also suggested UPSC to reconsider the objective of the Bill to bring down the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Uttar Pradesh to 1.7 within a given time frame. UPSC has recently sought suggestions from people keeping the draft bill in the public domain.
The working president of the VHP said in his suggestions that the two-child policy is considered desirable to achieve population stability. He stated that the population in a society is stable when the average number of children born in a woman’s reproductive life is a little more than two.
“This is when the TFR is 2.1. At this level of the TFR, on average, it takes two children to replace two parents and an additional 0.1 children giving some children the chance of dying before reaching reproductive age. and other similar children wasted,” Kumar said.
In a shrinking population, he noted, the ratio between the working-age population and the dependent population becomes disrupted.
In an extreme case, a one-child policy would lead to a situation where there is only one working-age adult to look after two parents and four grandparents, he said.
The VHP leader said that China had adopted a one-child policy in 1980, but had to withdraw it within three decades to overcome such a situation.
He said that imbalance between different communities is increasing in many states.
“This is becoming worrisome in states such as Assam and Kerala, where overall population growth has declined. In both these states, the TFR of Hindus has declined significantly below the replacement rate of 2.1, but the number of Muslims in Assam 3.16 and 2.33. In Kerala,” Kumar said.
He said in these two states, one community has entered the contraction phase, while the other is “still expanding”. “Uttar Pradesh should avoid getting into that situation,” the VHP leader said, adding that the one-child policy in the state “is likely to further imbalance among different communities as they respond differently to incentives”. Known for and discouragement related to family planning and contraception”
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