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Patralekha Chatterjee | Too few babies? Reset the India fertility rate debate

The idea of defining a woman primarily as a mother, duty bound to uphold the interests of the nation, is not new. India stands out because it is the world’s most populous country with a largely youthful population, where many states are simultaneously witnessing a steady decline in fertility, though at a varying rate, and a spike in the number …

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3 weeks ago

DC Edit | Indians don’t need larger families, only a better life

Deccan Chronicle

It may suit the political viewpoint of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Samaj, ideological parent of the ruling BJP, to keep igniting the debate over population in India, as its chief Mohan Bhagwat did in saying most recently that a society would perish if its population growth rate fell below 2.1 and that the total fertility rate needs to be at least …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Naidu, Stalin and now Bhagwat flag India’s falling TFR: 8 things to know

Firstpost

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat advocated expressed concern over India’s declining population growth and advocated for each couple to have at least three children. He said if the total fertility rate of a society falls below 2.1, it faces risk of extinction Each couple should have at least three children, advocated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat as he expressed concerns …

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Couples should have at least 3 children: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Hindustan Times

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday advocated for each couple to have at least three children, expressing concern over India’s declining population growth, saying if the total fertility rate of a society falls below 2.1, it faces risk of extinction. Speaking at the ‘Kathale Kul Sammelan’ in Nagpur, the RSS Sarsanghchalak highlighted that “Kutumb” is an integral part …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat flags population growth rate, says 'every couple should produce at least 3 kids'

India TV News

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat raised concerns over India's declining Total Fertility Rate during the 'Kathale Kul Sammelan' in Nagpur on Sunday. Bhagwat cautioned that according to population science, a society with a fertility rate below 2.1 risks heading toward extinction. “Our country’s population policy, formulated either in 1998 or 2002, clearly says that the total fertility rate should …

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1 month ago

Andhra passes laws to remove two-child norm for local body elections

Hindustan Times

The Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly on Monday passed two bills to effectively end the two-child norm that barred candidates having more than two children from contesting the elections for local bodies. In May 1994, the Congress-led government in combined Andhra Pradesh had imposed the two-child norm by amending the AP Panchayat Raj Act, the AP Municipal Corporations Act, 1955 and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The perfect cocktail of layered discrimination

The Hindu

Delimitation, the biggest elephant in the room called the Indian Union, is about to take centre stage. Article 82 of the Indian Constitution requires that the number of Lok Sabha seats per State is recalibrated after each Census by the Delimitation Commission, in accordance with the population. For example, if delimitation takes place, the proportion of seats in Parliament for …

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2 months ago

Naidu Reverses Two-Child Norm, Aims Demographic Balance in Andhra Pradesh

Hindustan Times

Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has called for the state to have more children to balance the demographic of young and old. The state cabinet has decided to remove the two-child norm and amend relevant laws to allow more people to contest elections for rural and urban local bodies. The decision is based …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

South Korea offers monetary aid to encourage youngsters to date, marry, have kids; expresses concerns about collapsing population

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Several countries in this world like India, China, the United States, Indonesia, etc are battling with the problem of over-population, framing schemes to control the birth rate in proportion to resources available. It was reported in May this year that while the decline in Total Fertility Rate has become a pervasive global issue, the challenges are particularly pronounced for South …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Andhra to remove two-child norm in local body elections

Hindustan Times

The Andhra Pradesh cabinet, headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday decided to do away with the two-child norm, which makes persons having more than two children ineligible to contest the elections to the rural and urban local bodies in the state. The decision to revoke the two-child norm was taken in view changing socio-economic necessities and balance …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

India is heading to IVF clinics, but what's behind the drop in fertility

India Today

On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born. This rush to IVF clinics comes at a time when the fertility rate has seen a significant decline in India. There are many factors such as lifestyle choices and biological factors which contribute to a decline in fertility rates in India. Indian women, for instance, experience an …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Women’s right to bodily autonomy: Japan needs to think again

Live Mint

A 24-year Japanese model and four of her young compatriots, who want to undergo sterilization surgeries, recently filed a lawsuit at a Tokyo court to challenge Japan’s Maternal Protection Act of 1996, which deprives them of the opportunity to do so and thus violates their constitutional right to equality and self-determination. As Japan faces an acute shortage of people in …

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5 months, 1 week ago

China’s low-fertility trap

Live Mint

A SMALL NUMBER should haunt the sleep of China’s leaders: 1.1. Even after controlling for education and degrees of social contact with China’s dominant Han majority, many ethnic groups stand out for wanting larger families. Intrigued, Chaguan headed to Guizhou, a province in China’s south-west with many minorities and the highest birth rates of any region outside Tibet. Faced with …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

UPERC amends rules for speedy installation of rooftop solar systems

Hindustan Times

The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission has amended rules for expeditious disposal of applications for and installation of rooftop solar systems in Uttar Pradesh. Also, applications for rooftop solar systems up to 10 kW capacity, complete in all respects, will be deemed to have been accepted without requiring a technical feasibility study. The commission has mandated that for installation of …

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8 months ago

Fact-Check: Did Manmohan Singh advocate 'first right' to resources for Muslims as claimed by PM Modi?

Hindustan Times

Speaking at a public event in Rajasthan's Banswara on 21 April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned for the Bharatiya Janata Party, targeting the Congress party's manifesto and past policies. "This is what the Congress manifesto says," he claimed, "They will take stock of the gold that mothers and sisters have, they will count and assess it, and then they will …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

View family planning through a gender lens

Hindustan Times

In recent times, there has been a lot of focus on how China’s population will age before the economic dividends of its fertility decline will kick in. Adopting modern family planning methods and reducing unmet needs are important factors, but again the focus has been largely on women. The ministry of health and family welfare’s Mission Parivar Vikas is aimed …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Men at higher risk from Covid-19. Researchers say THIS is why

Live Mint

The Covid pandemic has plagued human's survival for more thana couple of years now. Researchers have identified sex-specific differences in a type of immune cell and in the production of antibodies, as part of the response to Covid-19, which may explain why men are at higher risk from the disease. The researchers have now uncovered sex-specific differences in a type …

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2 years, 2 months ago

From untouchability to population policy, how Mohan Bhagwat mapped road ahead for RSS and Bharat

Firstpost

Vijayadashami happens to be the foundation day of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Third Sarsanghchaalak of RSS Balasaheb Deoras while delivering his landmark speech during Vasant vyakhyan mala in Pune in 1970s said, “Untouchability should go lock, stock and barrel.” Bhagwat also applauded the role of society and various NGOs in providing jobs and livelihood for the displaced due to COVID in …

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2 years, 2 months ago

‘Muslims use condoms the most, population on decline’: Owaisi on RSS chief’s remarks

The Hindu

The Muslim community uses family planning tool, condom the most in order to maintain a gap between two children, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed. He was responding to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent population imbalance remark. In his address at a public meeting in Hyderabad, the AIMIM chief said Mr. Bhagwat will not mention this, and he should keep …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Muslims use condoms the most, population on decline: Owaisi on RSS Chief\'s remarks

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Muslim community uses family planning tool, condom the most in order to maintain a gap between two children, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has claimed. In his address at a public meeting here, Owaisi said Bhagwat will not mention this, and he should keep data before discussing population growths. At the RSS Dussehra rally at the Reshimbagh Ground in …

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2 years, 2 months ago

RSS chief’s population control call clashes with Centre’s affidavit in Supreme Court

The Hindu

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s call for a “population control policy” on Wednesday may not be on the same page as the government’s affidavit in December 2020 which said it cannot coerce couples into having a “certain number of children” in a bid to curb population explosion. Further, a 2016 Supreme Court judgment authored by Justice Madan B. Lokur …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Measuring the change: The Hindu Editorial on reliability of socio-economic surveys

The Hindu

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey provides a valuable insight into changes underway in Indian society. When highlights were made public last year, the focus was on India’s declining total fertility rate that had, for the first time in the country’s history, dipped to below the replacement level, or a TFR of 2.1. If the trend were …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey

The Hindu

The Total Fertility Rate, an average number of children per woman, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between National Family Health Survey 4 and 5. There are only five States in India which are above replacement level of fertility of 2.1 — Bihar, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand Manipur — as per the national report of …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Progress, but at a slow pace

Hindustan Times

The findings of the 2019 Sample Registration Survey — they are the only official source of demographic data in India apart from the Census — provide important insights into the ongoing demographic transformation in India. SRS data shows that rural fertility has been falling at a faster rate than urban fertility, a trend that will eventually bring the size of …

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Patralekha Chatterjee | Too few babies? Reset the India fertility rate debate

DC Edit | Indians don’t need larger families, only a better life

Naidu, Stalin and now Bhagwat flag India’s falling TFR: 8 things to know

Couples should have at least 3 children: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat flags population growth rate, says 'every couple should produce at least 3 kids'

Andhra passes laws to remove two-child norm for local body elections

The perfect cocktail of layered discrimination

Naidu Reverses Two-Child Norm, Aims Demographic Balance in Andhra Pradesh

South Korea offers monetary aid to encourage youngsters to date, marry, have kids; expresses concerns about collapsing population

Andhra to remove two-child norm in local body elections

India is heading to IVF clinics, but what's behind the drop in fertility

Women’s right to bodily autonomy: Japan needs to think again

China’s low-fertility trap

UPERC amends rules for speedy installation of rooftop solar systems

Fact-Check: Did Manmohan Singh advocate 'first right' to resources for Muslims as claimed by PM Modi?

View family planning through a gender lens

Men at higher risk from Covid-19. Researchers say THIS is why

From untouchability to population policy, how Mohan Bhagwat mapped road ahead for RSS and Bharat

‘Muslims use condoms the most, population on decline’: Owaisi on RSS chief’s remarks

Muslims use condoms the most, population on decline: Owaisi on RSS Chief\'s remarks

RSS chief’s population control call clashes with Centre’s affidavit in Supreme Court

Measuring the change: The Hindu Editorial on reliability of socio-economic surveys

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey

Progress, but at a slow pace