Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has urged girls within the state to have no less than two youngsters or extra to stabilise the inhabitants, highlighting the declining birthrate as a urgent challenge. Talking at a current public assembly in Amaravati, Naidu expressed concern over the state’s birthrate, which at present stands at 1.6 stay births per girl, effectively beneath the substitute degree of two.1.
“South India is witnessing an ageing downside,” Naidu stated, emphasising the necessity for households to extend their variety of youngsters, information company PTI reported. He warned that if the present pattern continues, the birthrate might plummet to 1 or decrease, leading to a society predominantly composed of aged people. “For those who (every girl) give delivery to greater than two youngsters, then the inhabitants will enhance,” he said.
Naidu argued that this challenge transcends private accountability, framing it as a nationwide concern. “This work I’m doing (calling for extra youngsters) shouldn’t be just for you but additionally for the nation, for the better good. We are able to earn cash by doing any work, however we are going to work solely when we have now youngsters or when there’s a inhabitants,” he added. He pledged to take up this trigger as a private mission.
The Chief Minister referenced worldwide examples, citing Europe and Japan as areas grappling with comparable demographic challenges. “I recall my previous name for inhabitants management, stressing the finite availability of land, water, and air assets. Individuals heeded my phrase and lowered Andhra Pradesh’s birthrate inside ten years, which now dangers the hazard of its inhabitants falling down fully,” Naidu defined, as quoted by PTI.
He additionally talked about that he had beforehand barred people with greater than two youngsters from contesting native physique polls however now intends to reverse that coverage, advocating for extra advantages for bigger households. “We wish to go for inhabitants administration, as a substitute of inhabitants management. Now the time has come; each household has to consider find out how to handle the inhabitants, then solely there will likely be a future,” Naidu remarked.
In response, senior YSRCP chief Jupudi Prabhakar Rao questioned the consistency of Naidu’s stance. “What about himself (Naidu)? He has just one son, and his son (Nara Lokesh) additionally has just one son. He’s a visionary, proper?” Rao remarked, urging the CM to chorus from evaluating his imaginative and prescient to that of historic figures who efficiently applied comparable insurance policies previously.
In the meantime, the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee welcomed Naidu’s name, with vice chairman Kolanukonda Sivaji decoding it as an try and safeguard South India’s illustration in Parliament. “As a result of, beneath delimitation, Parliament seats in our area (south India) will cut back, and they’ll get added to the northern states. That is why, to beat this, there isn’t any time,” Sivaji said.
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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin Says Lok Sabha Delimitation Train ‘Could Encourage {Couples} To Have Many Youngsters’
In a associated context, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Okay. Stalin commented on the inhabitants debate throughout a separate occasion, hinting that the Lok Sabha delimitation train may lead individuals to consider elevating quite a few youngsters. He referenced a Tamil saying, “pathinarum petru peru vazhvu vazhga”.
“The Parliament delimitation course of could encourage the {couples} to have many youngsters and quit ideas of a small household. However no matter be the end result, present Tamil names to your youngsters,” PTI quoted him as saying.
“Up to now, the elders used to bless the newly married {couples} to accumulate 16 sorts of wealth (pathinarum petru peru vazhvu vazhga) together with fame, schooling, lineage, wealth, and never 16 youngsters. Regularly, individuals have come to imagine in elevating a small household for prosperity,” Stalin remarked. “That blessing does not imply beget 16 youngsters. Now a scenario has arisen the place individuals suppose they need to now actually elevate 16 youngsters and never a small and affluent household,” he added.