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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: UP's Population Control Bill: Coercion As Policy Will Not Work
Description: On 9 July, the Uttar Pradesh government released a draft of the proposed Population (control, sterilisation & welfare) Bill 2021 with an aim to make a two-child policy mandatory for those who wish to avail government benefits.
Two days later on the occasion of World Population Day, the government also released the state’s population policy saying that the governments aim to bring the birth rate down to 2.1 by 2026 and also reduce maternal and infant mortality rates.
While it is a fact that since Uttar Pradesh along with Bihar makes up for about 23 percent of the whole country’s population making it q...