Just two years later, India’s most populous state—Uttar Pradesh—proposed a new population policy. The state, it said, would reward families that limited themselves to two children, and penalise those that didn’t. (View Highlight)
Note: In 2021
If one member of the couple goes under the knife for voluntary sterilization, the family could get a range of benefits including tax rebates, subsidies for home purchases, and receiving cash back on their power and utility bills. At the same time, the proposed Uttar Pradesh policy regulations would bar those who have more than two children from receiving any government subsidies, applying for jobs in the local government, and running for political office in local elections, per the Times of India. (View Highlight)
In the ‘70s, for instance, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government famously imposed sterilisation on about 10 million people—mainly men. After that, the focus switched to sterilising women. (View Highlight)
Because the real story is complex. Both in terms of how India’s population affects its economics, and how we can reduce it. Or even if we should. (View Highlight)
