Population control

Lucknow: The day after a draft bill on population control was uploaded on UP’s state law commission website, chief minister Yogi Adityanath released the state’s new policy which aims to reduce population growth rate to 2.1% over next 10…

Unlike China, India does not have a national child policy. But two BJP-ruled states are moving towards a two-child policy. After Assam, it’s the turn of Uttar Pradesh. The state's Law Commission has come up with a similar proposal where a…

New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that India is against forcing family planning on its people and any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions, Hindustan Times…