Uttar Pradesh: CM Yogi Adityanath unveils new population policy for state

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday unveiled the new population policy 202130 on the occasion of World Population DayThrough the proposed policy efforts will be made to increase the accessibility of contraceptive measures issued under the Family Planning Programme and provide a proper system for safe abortion and on the other hand through improved health facilities efforts will be made for population stabilization by providing accessible solutions to impotenceinfertility and reducing the infant and maternal mortality rateSpeaking on the occasion the chief minister said that bringing the bill is necessary to control and stabilize the population to promote sustainable development with more equitable distributionHe also underlined the need or creating awareness among the people on this issueIn the new Population Policy a target has been set to bring the birth rate to 21 per thousand population by 2026 and to 19 by 2030One of the key points in the new policy is to make comprehensive arrangements for the care of the elderly apart from better management of education health and nutrition of adolescents between 11 to 19 yearsThe period of Population Policy 200016 of the state has ended and now a new policy is the need of the hourAlso readYogi Govt introduces single window and online systemsThe new policy has an innovative proposal to set up Health Clubs in schools with the awareness efforts for population stabilization as well as a system for digital tracking of infants adolescents and elderly people in line with the spirit of the Digital Health MissionWhile preparing the new population policy efforts have been made to maintain the demographic balance in all the communities easy availability of advanced health facilities and to bring down the maternal and child mortality rate to the minimum level through proper nutritionMeanwhile the State Law Commission has also prepared the draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population Control Stabilization and Welfare Bill2021 on which the public can give suggestions till July 19In the draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population Control Stabilization and Welfare Bill2021 issued by the State Law Commission Bacche Do He Acche has been highlightedAccording to the proposal parents who limit their family to only two children and are in government service and undergoing voluntary sterilization will be given facilities like two additional increments promotion exemption in government housing schemes increasing employer contribution in PFThere are also provisions to provide exemptions in water electricity house tax home loan and other such facilities to couples with two children who are not in government jobsIf the law is implemented then within a year all government officials employees and elected representatives of local bodies will have to give an affidavit that they will not violate this policy Ration cards would be limited to four unitsIt is proposed in the draft that the election can be cancelled if the rules are brokenThe single child will get preference in admission in all educational institutions including but not limited to the Indian Institute of Management and All India Institute of Management ScienceFree education up to graduation level scholarship for higher studies in case of a girl child and preference to the single child in government jobs are other benefits which couples with a single child will receiveThe draft bill further explains a The personal law governing A allows polygamy A has three wives B C and D A and B A and C and A and D shall be counted as three distinct married couple so far as the status of B C and D is concerned but as far as the status of A is concerned it shall be counted as one married couple for the purpose of calculation of cumulative number of children For example A has one child from B two children from C and one child from D the total number of children of A shall be four b The personal law governing B allows polyandry B has two husbands A and C B and A shall be counted as one married couple B and C shall be counted as another married coupleThis Act shall be called the Uttar Pradesh population Control stabilization and Welfare Act 2021 and it will extend to the whole of the state It will come into force after one year from the date of publication in the GazetteA State Population Fund would be constituted and it will be utilized to implement this ActAlso readUttar Pradesh Two cases of Kappa variant of Covid19 foundThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever