The Uttar Pradesh Law Commission on Monday submitted the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Draft Bill to the Chief Minister’s Office for consideration and further action. The draft Bill proposes to deny government benefits to those with more than two children, and bar them from contesting local body polls, applying for government jobs, or receiving any kind of government subsidy. An initial version of the draft Bill was published on the Law Commission’s website on July 9, and suggestions from the public were invited until July 19. “In several decisions even the Supreme Court has said that the two child policy is neither against protection of life and personal liberty nor against the freedom of religion. The single-child policy in the draft Bill has ignored objections of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to sections that aim at an average of less than 2 children per woman.

Source: Indian Express August 16, 2021 22:45 UTC