-The Hindu We need to change behaviours and social norms as family planning is considered responsibility of women, says NGO Less than one in 10 men use condoms in India, while nearly four in 10 women undergo Sterilisation to avoid pregnancy, according to the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-2021), which also shows that female Sterilisation continues to be on the rise including in urban India. Only 9.5% men used condoms but 37.9%...
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Male Sterilisations simpler, but the more complicated female procedure is what India opts for -Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in According to National Family Health Survey 4 data, 35.7% of all family planning procedures in India are female Sterilisations while only 0.3% account for male Sterilisations. New Delhi: The case of Chhattisgarh’s 101 female Sterilisations that took place last week in Surguja district, in a matter of hours, has thrown light on the procedure itself. Tubectomy, or female Sterilisation, is the most complicated of all available contraceptive methods. Yet, it is the...
More »Population populism: UP has no option left but to control its population -Badri Narayan
-Down to Earth State-led control of population might be criticised, but it will help us in the long run to stabilise the population growth in Uttar Pradesh Population is a hard reality. A state like Uttar Pradesh, which consists of 200 million people, needs to respond to this hard reality. That is why the Uttar Pradesh government led by Adityanath has proposed the UP population control bill 2021 recently. Governance in this drastically...
More »Making welfare conditional is a stamp of coercion -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A simple reading of U.P.’s draft population control law is that it will grossly impinge on the right to reproductive freedom On Sunday, the government of Uttar Pradesh released a “Population Policy” in which it stated its intention to bring the gross fertility rate in the State down from the existing 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026. To achieve this, the government says it will consider the enactment of a new...
More »UP law panel moots proposals to promote two-child norm -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Bar on government jobs and welfare benefits for those who have more children. The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has prepared a proposed draft Bill for population control, under which a two-child norm will be implemented and promoted. After the law comes into force, a person with more than two children will be debarred from several benefits such as government-sponsored welfare schemes and from contesting elections to the local authority or...
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