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Population Control PIL: Centre Says It Cannot Force Family Planning
By: Tupaki Desk | 12 Dec 2020 6:18 PM IST
Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar whom the media often dubs as the king of filing 'political interest litigations, has filed one more politically significant plea in the Supreme Court.
Ashwini Kumar moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's orders which dismissed the plea of issuing directives to control the growing population in the country.
As a response to the PIL, the Centre told the Supreme Court that India is against the idea of forcing family planning as such an idea will result in demographic distortions.
Adding further, the Health Ministry said 'public health' comes under the state matter and the state governments should make a move in the matters of the health sector reforms.
The Ministry went on to say that, it can only allocate funds for the states to implement the approved schemes, but it cannot direct the states to take such measures for population control.
The Ministry added that the fertility rate in the country has been declining. According to the Sample Registration System, the fertility rate in India in 2018 stood at 2.2 which was at 3.2 earlier.
Ashwini Kumar moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's orders which dismissed the plea of issuing directives to control the growing population in the country.
As a response to the PIL, the Centre told the Supreme Court that India is against the idea of forcing family planning as such an idea will result in demographic distortions.
Adding further, the Health Ministry said 'public health' comes under the state matter and the state governments should make a move in the matters of the health sector reforms.
The Ministry went on to say that, it can only allocate funds for the states to implement the approved schemes, but it cannot direct the states to take such measures for population control.
The Ministry added that the fertility rate in the country has been declining. According to the Sample Registration System, the fertility rate in India in 2018 stood at 2.2 which was at 3.2 earlier.