New Delhi: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to remove the one-child policy norm from its draft population control bill, saying it is likely to lead to furthering of the imbalance between different communities and contraction of the population.
The VHP has also asked the Yogi Adityanath government to remove “the anomaly” of rewarding or punishing the child, instead of the parents, from the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation, and Welfare) Bill, 2021.
“The preamble of the bill states that this is a bill, inter alia, to stabilize the population and promote the two-child norm. The Vishva Hindu Parishad agrees with both objects,” the organization’s working president, Alok Kumar, said in a letter to the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission (UPSCL) on Monday.
However, sections 5, 6(2) and 7 of the bill, which incentivizes public servants and others to have only one child in the family, go “well beyond the said objects”, he said.
“Therefore, we suggest the deletion of section 5, and the consequential sections 6(2) and 7 to avoid the contraction of the population as also the undesirable social and economic consequences of a one-child policy, and also the removal of the anomaly of rewarding or punishing the child instead of the parents,” Kumar added.
He also suggested to the UPSCL to reconsider the objective of the bill that seeks to bring down the total fertility rate (TFR) in Uttar Pradesh to 1.7 within a certain time frame. Zee News
