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Australia: Populate and We Will PerishIndia embarking on a one child policy
THE government’s decision to formulate a new population policy, emulating China’s single-child families by 2015, to avoid a serious socio-economic debacle due to ever-increasing population is an eminently sensible one. According to the draft policy, couples having only one child will be given preference in all state facilities, including the government’s assistance during admission to educational institutions. Read more
India’s government to start offering incentives for population control
The government is planning to offer a few facilities and incentives to one-child families as a part of its multi-faced campaign to popularize family planning, state minister for health and family planning Mujibur Rahman Sarkar told the parliament last Sunday.
Sarkar said the government would hold ‘receptions’ in honour of one-child couples with a view to encouraging others to go for one-child family.
The plan unveiled by the state minister would draw appreciation from all quarters, including donors who make available funds for population control programmes.
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