Two Child Policy
SC refuses to entertain pleas on two-child norm for controlling population
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a batch of pleas, including one seeking steps for enforcing a two-child norm to control the rising population, saying it is for the government to look at the issue. Citing media reports about India's population stabilising despite the rise in births, the apex court said it is not an issue where the court should interfere. "Population is not something that one fine day it stops," a bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka observed orally. Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, one of the petitioners, said a report from the Law Commission on the issue is very important. Upadhyay had filed a petition in the top court challenging an order of the Delhi High Court dismissing a plea seeking certain steps, including a two-child norm, to control the rising population. After the apex court said it was not inclined to entertain the plea, he withdrew it. Besides his plea, the bench also refused to entertain some other petitions filed on the issue, ...
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Won't support any law on 2-child policy, says AIMIM chief Owaisi
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said he would not support any law if the Centre brings in a two-child norm/policy in the country.
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A visit to Bhadohi shows what's amiss with UP's two-child population Bill
A visit to one of the state's lesser developed districts reveals that the proposed two-child Bill needs to change its focus
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China mulls end to childbirth restrictions by 2025, says report
China is considering ending its limits on childbirth by 2025 after finding its population growth is slowing down, said a report
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Why avoiding a nation-wide two-child policy is the right decision
Health ministry has said that it will not implement a mandatory two-child policy by denying government jobs, subsidies and certain rights to larger families
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Fertility rate falling, 2001-11 saw sharpest drop in 100 yrs: Census
The health ministry has emphasised India can achieve the goal of population stabilisation and at present India is knocking at the door of achieving replacement level fertility
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PIL to control population: Can't coerce family planning, Centre tells SC
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 dismissed a plea seeking two-child norm
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Development is best contraceptive: 2-child policy won't help India's Vikas
Are urgent and aggressive steps to control population required for India?
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Two child policy not 'un-Islamic' in Iran, we can implement it too: BJP
The two-child policy is family-size control policy, which encourages parents to limit their families to two children
