Uttar Pradesh Draft Bill

 

Uttar Pradesh Draft Bill Proposes That People With Over Two Children From Getting Government Jobs And Subsidy

Public suggestions have been invited to improve the draft bill and July 19 is the last date for it.Let’s Know More About It

 

People those having more than two children will be debarred from contesting local bodies polls, applying for government jobs or receiving any kind of subsidy, says a draft of a population control bill put up on the UP Law Commission website.

The provisions are part of the draft bill, titled The Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021, as floated by the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission (UPSLC). The draft is open for public suggestions till July 19`

The bill highlight on the need togovern, balance the population of the state for promotion of sustainable development with more equitable distribution, and provide welfare to the population of the state by implementing and promoting two-child norm.

A state population fund will be constituted for its implementation. Listing the government duties, the draft bill says that maternity centres will be set up at all primary health centres.

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The centres and NGOs will distribute contraceptive pills, condoms, spread awareness about family planning methods through community health workers and ensure mandatory registration of pregnancies, deliveries, births and deaths across the state, it says.

The draft bill also says that it shall be the duty of the government to introduce a compulsory subject relating to population control in all secondary schools.

The draft bill says that, "In Uttar Pradesh, there are limited ecological and economic resources at hand. It is necessary and urgent that the provision of basic necessities of human life including affordable food, safe drinking water, decent housing, access to quality education, economic/livelihood opportunities, power/electricity for domestic consumption, and a secure living is accessible to all citizens."

It is necessary to ensure healthy birth spacing through measures related to augmenting the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality reproductive health services to achieve the goal of population control, stabilisation and its welfare in the state, it states.

As incentives for adopting the two-child policy under the proposed bill, public servants "will get two additional profits during the entire service, maternity or as the case may be, paternity leave of 12 months, with full salary and allowances and three per cent increase in the employer's contribution fund under national pension scheme claims the bill draft.

 

The bill has drawn in breath from a series of Opposition leaders with Congress terming it a “political agenda”. Condemning the UP government move, UP Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh in a Hindi tweet said, “The RSS and BJP leaders talk about increasing the population. Population control is a subject of the Centre. Yogi Adityanath (CM) is bringing the bill keeping in mind the UP Assembly elections.”