Why India must adopt community driven anti-natalist policies for population management
3 years ago

Why India must adopt community driven anti-natalist policies for population management

Firstpost  

Not only does Uttar Pradesh’s two-child population policy set a dangerous precedent, being harshly regressive and intrusive, it also violates the foundational values of the Constitution The core of a nation is built by the people who inhabit the territories and contribute to its glory. The Chinese tryst with Population Distortion It all started in the 1960s with China’s One Child policy leading the country towards a demographic peril. The Chinese today stand to lose more than they gain; with an ageing population, declining sex ratio, increased dependency, reducing labor force participation rate and an unsustainable fertility rate to add to its woes. The Uttar Pradesh population policy seeks to bring about a Two Child norm in the state by not only incentivising those who conform, but also making welfare conditional to compliance.

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Why Chandrababu Naidu flipped the two-child poll clause
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Why Chandrababu Naidu flipped the two-child poll clause

India Today  

The Andhra Pradesh government has repealed a 30-year-old rule that had made the two-child norm mandatory for those seeking election to local bodies such as the gram panchayats, mandal praja parishads and zilla parishads. On both fronts, therefore, all southern states are deeply worried at the prospect that their success in stabilising population growth could actually end up being “penalised” …

Patralekha Chatterjee | Too few babies? Reset the India fertility rate debate
2 weeks, 5 days ago

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

Deccan Chronicle  

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 …

From the India Today archives (2021) | India's population policy: Myths and reality
3 weeks, 2 days ago

From the India Today archives (2021) | India's population policy: Myths and reality

India Today  

When Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the occasion of World Population Day on July 11 to announce a new state population policy, there normally should have been no quarrel about it. After all, the state is India’s most populous, harbouring nearly 200 million people or 17 per cent of India’s population. Population Foundation of India’s executive director Poonam …

Resolving India’s population woes requires political maturity
1 month ago

Resolving India’s population woes requires political maturity

Al Jazeera  

The best solutions are to be found in getting politicians to behave apolitically and look at the long-term future of the country, not their own immediate gains. Economist Shamika Ravi, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently commented on X that fertility rates in more than three-quarters of India’s states are now below …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 1 week ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 1 week ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

India’s demographic journey of hits and misses
5 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s demographic journey of hits and misses

The Hindu  

As we observe World Population Day on July 11, there is much to look at in India’s demographic journey over the decades. With 2030, the target year, drawing closer, India’s progress in the SDGs should be understood particularly in light of its population dynamics. India’s population dynamics Three components, namely fertility, mortality, and migration, play a pivotal role in shaping …

How China lost the plot on population
11 months ago

How China lost the plot on population

Hindustan Times  

On September 25, 1980, the Communist Party of China released a document, titled “Open Letter to members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Youth League”, advocating the “one-child per couple” policy. “The policy also lightened pressure on peoples’ livelihood, on education, on job hunting and on medical care, and in turn has saved the nation and families the …

Why China got population control wrong; India got it right
1 year, 7 months ago

Why China got population control wrong; India got it right

Al Jazeera  

Yes, India has many challenges ahead, but compared with China, it has shown that slow and steady can win the race. Today, as India’s population passes China’s amid a mix of hope and apprehensions about its implications, it’s important to recall those journeys so societies and policymakers draw the right lessons from them. Under India’s federal structure, state governments set …

India as most populous can be more boon than bane
1 year, 8 months ago

India as most populous can be more boon than bane

The Hindu  

China is projected to hand over the baton of the most populous country to India by mid-2023. To answer this, we need to understand: the nature of population growth, size and its composition, as well as mechanisms through which a country translates demographic bonus into economic dividend. With 68% of the working age population in 2023, the country continues to …

Chinese state media slams ‘hype’ about India’s population boom
1 year, 8 months ago

Chinese state media slams ‘hype’ about India’s population boom

Al Jazeera  

Western media reports on China’s population being overtaken by India deliberately ignore China’s development, using the topic to “bad mouth” it and advocate decoupling, China’s state broadcaster CCTV has said. CCTV’s sharply worded commentary on Thursday said the subtext from Western media in recent years was that China’s development was in “big trouble” and that when the country’s demographic dividend …

India to overtake China in population by July 1: UN
1 year, 8 months ago

India to overtake China in population by July 1: UN

Hindustan Times  

The United Nations expects India’s population to touch 1.429 billion latest by July 1, which will make it the most populous country in the world for the first time. “What we can say is that China’s population reached its peak last year and started to decline, and that while India’s population is growing, its rate of population growth has been …

World’s largest population: Will India gain or lose?
1 year, 8 months ago

World’s largest population: Will India gain or lose?

Al Jazeera  

India has the world’s largest workforce. “The greatest obstacle in the path of overall economic development is the alarming rate of population growth,” India’s health and family planning minister S Chandrasekhar said in 1967. In many ways, this is an indictment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” policies that have been pitched as a means to turn the …

The population bomb that never was
1 year, 8 months ago

The population bomb that never was

The Hindu  

On March 27, 2023, Beniamino Callegari, associate professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo, and a member of the Earth4All modelling team, and Per Espen Stoknes, Earth4All project lead and director of the Centre for Sustainability at the BI Norwegian Business School, published their predictions about the world’s human population in the form of a report, in a report by the …

Mohan Guruswamy | China’s people crisis and lessons India must learn
1 year, 10 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | China’s people crisis and lessons India must learn

Deccan Chronicle  

There is some excitement in the media over the fact that India’s population has just pipped China’s and that we are now officially the world’s most populous nation. In contrast, China’s population was nearly double of that, with 322 million people at the turn of the 19th century. As Indian, African and American dependency ratios turn increasingly favourable in the …

Decoding India’s population conundrum | In Focus podcast
1 year, 10 months ago

Decoding India’s population conundrum | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

2023 is set to be a landmark year for India’s population trajectory, as the country is predicted to overtake China to become the world’s most populous nation. The advantages, experts have pointed out, is the demographic dividend - we will have a massive number of young people in the working age group, and a relatively lower number of those needing …

Aging factory: The Hindu Editorial on China’s population decline
1 year, 11 months ago

Aging factory: The Hindu Editorial on China’s population decline

The Hindu  

The last time China’s population saw a decline was in 1961, in the midst of a devastating four-year famine following Mao’s failed “Great Leap Forward” campaign. As a paper from Japan’s Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry pointed out, the proportion of child and elderly populations in China as of 2020 was similar to Japan’s in 1990. Moreover, China …

China’s Declining Population Can Still Prosper
54 years, 11 months ago

China’s Declining Population Can Still Prosper

Wired  

Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Statistics in China announced that the Chinese population has decreased for the first time in 60 years. Many people see China’s low fertility and declining population as a threat to its economic prosperity, assuming the labor force will shrink at the same time that social security costs and the number of older dependents …

A challenge and an opportunity
1 year, 11 months ago

A challenge and an opportunity

Hindustan Times  

In 2022 China’s population fell on an annual basis for the first time in 61 years and for the first time due to a normal demographic transition. PREMIUM Evidence of declining fertility rates among all communities, including Muslims, does not support the shrill narrative of any imminent threat of change in India’s broad social composition. Evidence of declining fertility rates …

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Most populous in world: An asset or a burden for India?
2 years ago

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Most populous in world: An asset or a burden for India?

Deccan Chronicle  

Come April 14 next year and there will be no dearth of patriotic Indians to applaud the National Democratic Alliance if India’s population touches 1,425,775,850, as the United Nations has predicted. In spite of the fact that the family planning and welfare programmes undertaken by previous governments brought down the fertility rate, India’s population is not expected to stabilise before …

If you want to enjoy demographic dividend let the population grow: Chandrababu Naidu
2 years ago

If you want to enjoy demographic dividend let the population grow: Chandrababu Naidu

The Hindu  

Government must promote population growth instead of stressing population control measures for the country to continue enjoying the demographic dividend, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desham Party chief Chandrababu Naidu said. We should plan in such a way that we can extend our demographic dividend.” There is a north-south divide in population density but Mr. Naidu clarified that …

Tap opportunities of population trends
2 years ago

Tap opportunities of population trends

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY There are always two sides of the same coin for a populous country: a large population may prop up growth, but will also impose pressure on resources and environment. Over the next 30 years, the overlapping negative population growth and aging in China will profoundly drag on economic and social development. The total rural permanent population peaked …

It’s time to discuss depopulation
2 years ago

It’s time to discuss depopulation

The Hindu  

Two weeks ago, when the world population touched 8 billion, several headlines focused on how India was the largest contributor to the last billion and is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation by 2023. However, what needs more urgent policy intervention is the fact that parts of India have not only achieved replacement fertility, but have …

Does India need a population policy?
2 years, 2 months ago

Does India need a population policy?

The Hindu  

Earlier this year, the United Nations published data to show that India would surpass China as the world’s most populous country by 2023. According to the 2018-19 Economic Survey, India’s demographic dividend will peak around 2041, when the share of the working age population is expected to hit 59%. Poonam Muttreja: India has a very good population policy, which was …

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

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

India should not ignore religion-based population imbalances, says RSS
2 years, 2 months ago

India should not ignore religion-based population imbalances, says RSS

Deccan Chronicle  

NAGPUR: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said India should have a population policy prepared after comprehensive thought and be applicable to all communities equally. Pointing out at China's one family one child policy, Bhagwat said, "While we are trying to control the population, we should see what happened in China. That country went for the one child …

Reaping the demographic dividend
2 years, 4 months ago

Reaping the demographic dividend

The Hindu  

The UN report, World Population Prospects 2022, forecasts that the world’s population will touch eight billion this year and rise to 9.8 billion in 2050. A long-time critic of China’s population policy and author of Big Country with An Empty Nest, Yi Fuxian, believes that without its one child policy, China’s population, too, would have naturally risen and peaked at …

Partisan politics promoting population proliferation in India
2 years, 5 months ago

Partisan politics promoting population proliferation in India

New Indian Express  

A doomsday prophesy of caterwauling Cassandras is coming true. As India adds around 3700 individuals hourly to its denizen count, the 1500-million mark will flash by the 2030 milestone faster than the Chinese can spell 'Wuhan'. Even at the highest current rate of economic growth, this ridiculous record indicates that over 500 million Indians would be still leading a BPL …

What a burgeoning population entails
2 years, 5 months ago

What a burgeoning population entails

Hindustan Times  

In India, population debate is a sensitive subject. This debate, which often acquires a political-religious colour, gathered steam this week with a United Nations report that said India may surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. PREMIUM This week, a United Nations report said that India may surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. …

'Population imbalance' should not be allowed to happen: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath
2 years, 5 months ago

'Population imbalance' should not be allowed to happen: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath

The Hindu  

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on July 11 said population control programme must go ahead successfully but at the same time "population imbalance" should not be allowed to happen. Speaking at a function to mark the commencement of 'population control fortnight', he noted, "When we talk about family planning/population stabilisation, we have to keep in mind that the population …

BJP pushes population control bill
3 years ago

BJP pushes population control bill

The Hindu  

Even as India’s national Total Fertility Rate is falling below the replacement rate, BJP MP in Rajya Sabha Kirori Lal Meena pushed for “Population Control” law on the lines of China’s now discarded one-child policy. Parliament Proceedings | December 3, 2021 However, Mr. Meena said a population control law will help with controlling food inflation and bringing equality for women. …

Should the state stop focusing on population control?
3 years ago

Should the state stop focusing on population control?

The Hindu  

According to the recently released National Family Health Survey -5, India’s Total Fertility Rate, which is the number of children a woman would have in the course of her life, is 2, a decrease from 2.2 in NFHS-4. Poonam Muttreja and S. Irudaya Rajan discuss whether governments should stop focusing on population control, in a conversation moderated by Serena Josephine …

How declining fertility in India will be a great boon in the long run
3 years ago

How declining fertility in India will be a great boon in the long run

Firstpost  

The latest National Family Health Survey, released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare early this week, indicates Indians have stabilised their numbers on average, at just about replacement rate Being the most populous of countries is an economic no-no. The latest National Family Health Survey, the fifth in series, released by the Ministry of Health on 24 November …

No need for a drastic population policy
3 years, 4 months ago

No need for a drastic population policy

The Hindu  

Population policy is suddenly in the news in India with Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States such as Assam and Uttar Pradesh proposing to bring in or bringing in draft legislation aimed at controlling their populations. If the replacement fertility rate has already been achieved in Assam and will be achieved by 2025 in U.P., what is the need for any drastic …

Will measure like U.P.'s draft population control Bill work? | In Focus podcast
3 years, 5 months ago

Will measure like U.P.'s draft population control Bill work? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Over the past few weeks, the debate on population control in India has been re-ignited. Uttar Pradesh, the most populous State in India, has introduced a draft bill that says that those with more than two children will be debarred from government- Even while data shows us that India's fertility rate is declining, our population is set to grow, and …

An unproductive idea: The Hindu Editorial on U.P.’s new population policy
3 years, 5 months ago

An unproductive idea: The Hindu Editorial on U.P.’s new population policy

The Hindu  

Incentives and penalties form an integral component of the measures to control population growth, announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday. In a draft Uttar Pradesh Population Bill, 2021, the Government aims to incentivise one-child families and reward those with two children with perks in government schemes, rebates in taxes and loans, and cash awards if family …

'Not in favour': Nitish Kumar disapproves of law on population control
3 years, 5 months ago

'Not in favour': Nitish Kumar disapproves of law on population control

India TV News  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday made his disagreement clear over the laws being considered by a few Bharatiya Janata Party -ruled states to control population. Assam and Uttar Pradesh have proposed draft bill on population control triggering sharp reactions from the Opposition. When asked about his views on the draft bill, Nitish Kumar told reporters in Patna,"It's not …

'Is this India's message': BJP leader targets Aamir Khan over population growth
3 years, 5 months ago

'Is this India's message': BJP leader targets Aamir Khan over population growth

India Today  

Expressing concern over the rising population in the country, BJP MP from Mandsaur Sudhir Gupta blamed “people like Aamir Khan”, the Bollywood actor, for “population imbalance” in India. Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, Gupta said, “Talking in Indian perspective, it is Aamir Khan, whose first wife Reena with two kids and second wife Kiran Rao with one kid, …

World Population Day: As UP invites suggestions, a look at India's history of population control
3 years, 5 months ago

World Population Day: As UP invites suggestions, a look at India's history of population control

Firstpost  

These critics argue that rich people have imposed population control on the poor for decades. And, they say, such coercive attempts to control the world’s population often backfired and were sometimes harmful A day before the world observed World Population Day, the Uttar Pradesh government in India released a draft of a proposed population control bill, seeking suggestions from the …

China’s coercive population measures serve as warning for India: Experts
3 years, 6 months ago

China’s coercive population measures serve as warning for India: Experts

The Hindu  

China’s decision to relax its two-child norm and allow couples to have three children must serve as a warning for India that coercive population strategies can be counter-productive, say experts. India, on the other hand, has been toying with the idea of population control measures through a two-child norm, which found a mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day …

China Relaxes Family Planning Rules; Each Couple To Be Allowed 3 Children
3 years, 6 months ago

China Relaxes Family Planning Rules; Each Couple To Be Allowed 3 Children

ABP News  

New Delhi: After a Politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, China will allow each couple to have up to three children a move taken in a bid to stop the aging population & declining birth rate from disrupting its economic prospects. “Allowing every couple to have three children and implementing related support policies will help improve the population’s structure,” …

Can't Coerce Family Planning, Leads to Demographic Distortions: Centre Tells SC
4 years ago

Can't Coerce Family Planning, Leads to Demographic Distortions: Centre Tells SC

News 18  

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that India is unequivocally 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. The submission was made in response to a PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging a Delhi High Court order that …

China to introduce new policies to tackle ageing population
4 years, 1 month ago

China to introduce new policies to tackle ageing population

Al Jazeera  

State media says China will offer extensive financial and policy support to encourage couples to have more children. China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address issues associated with its rapidly ageing population and shrinking workforce as part of its new 2021-2025 “five-year plan”, according to state media. Citing experts, the official China Daily newspaper …

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