Big Picture: U.P. Population Control Bill

The UP State Law Commission has received over 8,500 responses on the draft law on Population Control with some of them criticising, some appreciating and others giving suggestions to make the law more effective.

The Commission on July 9 had uploaded the draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare Bill, 2021, on its website seeking suggestions in 10 days (till July 19) from the public on the proposed law.

The draft Bill had evoked sharp reaction from political parties and even social and religious organisations not only from Uttar Pradesh but all across the country.

The bill has listed out incentives for those who have two children or less and disincentives for those who have more than two children.

In this edition of Big Picture we analyse the need for a population control bill.

Vipul Mudgal, Director, Common Cause... ///
P. K. Malhotra, Former Law Secretary, GoI... ///
Kapil Sankhla, Advocate, Supreme Court... ///

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UPSC Mains Probable Question:
Population control is a double-edged sword. India has scope to cut its population size, but it needs to be mindful of the additional problems it may cause. Discuss in light of the UP Population Control Draft Bill 2021.

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[geetanjalisingh]

The way Mr. Kapil Sankhla sir took the argument into a domain of agreement 🙌🙌 bravo. This is the communication skill I would like to evolve. 👍👍
Thanks Frank sir

[sapnasharma]

A fruitful session indeed. It's good to hear different perspectives at the same time. We definitely need some population control while taking care of all the other aspects like female foeticide, infant mortality etc. In my opinion, we should educate people and empower them so that they can take the right decisions.

[SanjayKRavi]

Thanks to Bharta first team for such a comprehensive discussion covering most of the dimensions .

Good day . 👍

Jai Hind.

[saishree]

Thank you sir. The discussion is informative and covered all the angles

[nimok]

The background wallpaper is distracting 😁

[bharatiya-akp]

vipul mudgal, i think so he is biased towards certain party.
completely anti govt or simply anti bjp.
leaving party politics aside, such bill was need of hour, resources are limited but population is increasing.
2 children are enough to ensure quality of life.
more children means more spending on edu, health, nutrition and if not taken care they may become liabilities.
its better to provide better facilities to 2 children and make them assets of India.

[pranjuldwivedi]

Population control is the need of the hour to protect earth's resources and also nature.
USA is able to reach 20 trillion dollars economy with less than 40 crore population, so why is India afraid when it already has more than 130 crore population.
Also, this is the time of automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence. Hence obviously labour-force requirement is going to decrease in the future, so what are we trying to achieve by increasing the population ?

[srishasankarsanpanda]

Quite a good discussion bringing all the latest facts and perspective

[Rahulpriye]

For the first time, I had a very huge goosebumps & want to make comment as early as possible right before hearing the second comments from the panelists.
Firstly, I am completely in agreement with both Mr.Malhotra & Mr.Mudgil & in completely completely in disagreement with Mr.Sankhla.I think Mr.Sanklhla has completely misunderstood both the population control issues as well as what both the other two panelists has said.
Earlier Mr.Sankhla said about the law is secular.No.the issues of birth fertility of hindus & muslims are secular not the law.Secondly, he talked about the population data of India surpassing china in wrong context.on the other hand, Mr.Gudgil taking UN data talk more of a reality that the education, health, employment & poverty reduction served the objective wonderfully.
Thirdly, Well he talked about Ration card holders being penalized if they have more family size.I think they are not penalized but deprived from the benifits while on the other hand, What UP government is doing is that he not only deprived the person who have more children from government's schemes benifits but also penalized for that by not eligible for government jobs & all that.Mr.Sankhla completely denied that the issue is more of a political means he is very biased atleast in this issue.
I think coercive laws are never be fruitful unless it is in the best interest of the country.

[priyanshu]

POPULATION ASSESSMENT

More permanent and justifiable decision is need in this time to address population issue of india

Well, Debates, Discussions and Decisions on population control in India is always in priority and for the very problem Uttar Pradesh govt has decided to create china kind of two child norms . But before moving on the heated topic let we first see why population control is needed in India and what are the problems that a hefty populated nation faces in different domains.
Firstly, india is one of the largest Population in the world who is standing second after china in terms of count of citizens of the nation. And for this reason, it is said that in every six person in the world one is definitely from India . India has total of 16 percent of people in the world the resources like land and water is mere 2.4 percent and 4 percent in the world respectively. Now the query is the gap that has been there between the population and the resources available for them . Population control is in wake in india just because of the problem of underutilization of resources to its citizens. India who is now suffering facing huge count of unemployment rate and lacking facilities in terms of health as well though the govt is working on it, this is just the hefty reliance of 1.35 billion people which may turn to 1.5 billion in 2030 and 1.64 in 2050 as well if no proper solution is taken forward.
In the above discussion, the questions have been arousen that - 1) Is social problems a legal problem?
2) Is it indeed a need of the hour of two child policy like china ?
3) Do we have other ways to tackle the problem?
4) Role of education and health in count control . Etc

The two child norm of Uttar Pradesh govt is being praised and criticised as well, as the problem is know to us but the solution are many . The positive thing is that it directly encourage population control for the wellbeing of people in every aspects but it's challenges are also there -
A) The two child norm of china gave them counterproductive outcome and with the passage of time china's male count extended far more than that of female one .
B) Almost 65 percent of India's population are youth which is favourable for economic productivity may be effected if such norms come in force.
C) The policy may not be justified in case if third child is born because at the end the third one will bear the brunt of parents mistake .
D) It's not a population problem but poor and rich problem as data suggest poor and uneducated has relatively high birth count ( avg 4.94) as that of rich and educated (2.32). So the law may drag these category of people furthermore.
The final word is that we need to use education and health as a tool of population control as Assam and Kerela has 75 percent and 97.4 percent of female literacy rate and doing well in fertility ie 1.87 and 1.79 but Bihar having merely 55 percent of female literacy has 2.98 fertility rate which is quite high than above duo. So the common tool is health ( to ensure low infant mortality, a great fear of parents tht make them to have multiple children), education ( to aware them the benifits of limited children in economy and family balance as well ).
By the way our population ie UP count has reduced at some margin if we compare it with 10 years ago so a stringent policy like that is unjustified in the current context .
Therefore the above discussed tool will give benifits to India in future if it is used well.
THANKS FOR THOROUGH READING

[nitinhugar]

So the panelists agree that we need population control bill. They are just differing in 'How to do it'

[ravindarsingh]

Kapil sankla sir missing a very important point that such a legislation has the potential to change the very nature of our demography completely. China is the case in point

[abhisheksrivastava]

My point is that for limited period of time implementation of strict population control law is very urgent.
It's for the sake national interest since over-population is the mother of all evils including poverty, unemployment, corruptions, crime due to poverty, shortages of resources etc.
Always remember it's the quality of human resources that makes a country superpower not quantity.
Since quality is an asset to the nation and quantity is a liability.

[CrossCritics]

According to reports, in future we're going to face extreme job losses due to artificial intelligence based robots, extreme water crisis, droughts and many more. Many panelist are unable to imagine what's going to happen in upcoming years. After 10 years when we will have driverless cars and robots working in each sector, how much youth will be needed then for country. If there will be no population controll law, India will not be able to feed more than 90 % of its population by 2035. Panelist are not considering rapid digitalization.
Now think that there are many countries which has very less youth comparatively than India but they are providing every facility to everyone.
If it doesn't happen immediately then after few years we will have to suffer with extreme hunger definitely.

[aswinsuresh]

Population control bill is indeed the need of hour and what Mr Kapil Sangla sir said is right. After 10 or 15 years a share of our today's job will be taken over by machines

[ashokdabi]

Waiting for sir J Sai Deepak on Big Picture

[beupdated]

Jab 2 male child hota hai the people not considering 3rd child but when there is 2 to 3 female child than even education person have there 3rd and 4th child. I think the population disaster is due to inequality

[Rkoshik_]

Population control is indeed required. Unemployment is already high..increasing the population of youngsters doesn't mean increase in productivity or production. They will either remain underemployed or disguised unemployed. What we should be concerned about is how to check sex-selective foeticides and as Mr. Mudgal said sterilisations could be done after first male child. How would the govt tackle this issue remains to be seen

[productiveaspirant]

male meta preference and female illiteracy are the main problems. Moreover Gandhiji said there is enough for everyman's need but not for everyman's greed.

[rahulnimgade]

I think you are moving towards to become a soft Arnab