10 Points You Need To Know About The Proposed Population Control Bill
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1.The Bill was first introduced in 2019 as the Population Control Bill,2019or, Population Regulation Bill,2019 in the Rajya Sabha in July of last year.
2.RakeshSinha, another MP of Rajya Sabha introduced the bill basically to start controlling the population growth in India (2/n)

3. The bill is not yet a law,which is why Anil Agarwal is imploring the PM to get it started to become a law.The initially proposed bill was signed by 125MPs
In February of 2020,a Shiv Sena MP Anil Desai,brought up the Constitution (Amendment) Bill,2020 that would amendamend(3/n)

the Article 47A of the Constitution of India
4. This new 2020 bill puts forth a two-child only policy.
5. If the couple adheres to this policy they would be given many government-based incentives (4/n)

6. These incentives can include educational benefits, taxation cuts, home loans, free healthcare, and better employment opportunities to name a few.
7. The 2019 Bill by Sinha had proposed that couples who had more than 2 kids should be debarred from contesting elections,(5/n)

denial of government jobs, financial benefits and even food under government’s public distribution system.
8. One section of the 2020 Amendment Bill also proposed that the central government should give preference to candidates who have two or less than two children. (6/n)

9. Another section of the 2020 Bill asked for all employees of the Central Government to submit an undertaking in writing that they shall not have more than two children. Employees who already have more than two children shall submit an undertaking that they (7/n)

will not procreate any more children.
10. A section of the 2020 Bill stated that a married couple who are below the poverty line, having only one child also agree to get sterilised, then they shall be eligible to get Rs. 60,000 if their child is a boy and (8/n)

Rs. 1 lakh if the child is a girl, from the central government. This child would also get preference while getting admission in institutes of higher education and during the selection of a government job.

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