Andhra passes laws to remove two-child norm for local body elections
Hindustan TimesThe 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 the Municipalities Act, 1965 as part of population control measures. On August 7, the state cabinet, headed by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, decided to do away with the two-child norm in view of the changing socio-economic necessities and balance of population taking into consideration falling total fertility rate. “Keeping all these factors in view, the government has decided to do away with the two-child norm for contesting the local body elections,” Parthasarathy had said.
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