UP Population Control Bill (2 Child Policy) 2021 Draft

The Object of the Bill is to control, stabilize the population of the State for the promotion of sustainable development with more equitable distribution.

Further, it also states that it is necessary to provide for measures to control, stabilize and provide welfare to the population of the State by implementation and promotion of two-child norms per eligible couple in the State by means of incentives and disincentives.

The provision of the bill would apply to a married couple where the boy is not less than twenty-one years of age and the girl is not less than eighteen years of age.

For Govt employees adhering to the two-child norm

The public servants under the control of the State Government who adopts two-child norm by undergoing voluntary sterilization operation upon himself or spouse shall be given the following incentives—

• Two additional increments during the entire service
• Subsidy towards the purchase of plot or house site or built house from Housing Board or development Authority, as may be prescribed.
• Soft loan for construction or purchasing a house on nominal rates of interest, as may be prescribed.
• Rebate on charges for utilities such as water, electricity, water, house tax, as may be prescribed.
• Maternity or, as the case may be, paternity leave of 12 months, with full salary and allowances.
• Three percent increase in the employer’s contribution Fund under national pension
• Free health care facility and insurance coverage to the spouse.

For Govt employees adhering to the one-child norm

• Four additional increments
• Free health care facility and insurance coverage to the single child till he attains the age of twenty years
• Preference to single child in admission in all educational institutions, including but not limited to Indian Institute of Management, All India Institute of Medical Science, etc.
• Free education up to graduation level
• Scholarship for higher studies in case of a girl child
• Preference to a single child in government jobs

Special Benefit to Couple Living under the Below Poverty Line

Section 7 of the bill states that a couple living below the poverty line, having only one child undergoes voluntary sterilization operation upon himself or spouse shall be eligible for payment from the government for a one-time lump-sum amount of rupees eighty thousand if the single child is a boy, and rupees one lakh if the single child is a girl.

Bar on applying to government jobs

Section 10 of the bill restricts employees from applying in government jobs if it is found he/she/they have violated the two-child policy.

“Notwithstanding anything contained in any law dealing with the employment of government employees for the time being in force, whosoever, after the commencement of this Act, in contravention of two-child norm procreates more than two children shall be ineligible to apply for government jobs under the State Government.”

However, it shall not be applicable to individuals who are already working as government employees under the State government.

It further states that every government employee under the State government, having more than two children at the time of commencement of this Act, has to furnish an undertaking to the effect that they shall not act in contravention to the two-child norm.