U.P.’s new population policy keeps all sections in mind: Adityanath

Subject : Governance

Context : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the State’s population policy for 2021-2030.

Concept :

The new policy aims at

decreasing the total fertility rate from 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026 and 1.7 by 2030,
increase modern contraceptive prevalence rate from 31.7% to 45% by 2026 and 52% by 2030,
increase male methods of contraception use from 10.8% to 15.1% by 2026 and 16.4% by 2030,
decrease maternal mortality rate from 197 to 150 to 98, and infant mortality rate from 43 to 32 to 22, and under 5 infant mortality rate from 47 to 35 to 25.
Targeting stabilisation, the draft of the policy also said the State would attempt to maintain a balance of population among the various communities.
The policy comes at a time when the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has prepared the proposed draft Bill under which a two-child norm would be implemented and promoted.
A person who will have more than two children after the law comes into force would be debarred from several benefits such as government-sponsored welfare schemes and from contesting elections to the local authority or any body of the local self-government.
According to the draft, ration card units would be limited to four members of a family.