‘Have more children for the benefit of the nation’: Naidu plans legislation to boost young population in Andhra

“We are reasoning of providing incentives to families with much kids, encouraging couples to person much children. We person repealed the earlier instrumentality barring radical with much than 2 children from contesting section assemblage elections. We volition bring successful a caller instrumentality to marque lone those with much than 2 children eligible to contest,’’ Naidu said connected Saturday aft flagging disconnected the resumption of operation enactment astatine Amaravati that had been halted nether the erstwhile government.

The CM said that successful galore districts, villages had lone aged radical arsenic the younger procreation migrated to antithetic parts of the state and abroad. He noted that India’s mean colonisation maturation has declined from 6.2 per cent successful the 1950s to 2.1 successful 2021, and that successful Andhra Pradesh, the fig has travel down to 1.6 per cent.

“We are already successful deficit. Having less than 2 children leads to the accelerated diminution of the young population. Having much than 2 kids volition guarantee a unchangeable population,” helium said.

He besides pointed to the examples of Japan, China, and European countries. “We person a demographic vantage lone till 2047. After 2047, determination volition beryllium much aged radical than young successful Andhra Pradesh. It is already happening successful Japan, China, and galore countries of Europe. Having much children is besides your responsibility. You are not doing it for yourself, it is besides for the payment of the nation, it is simply a work to nine also,” Naidu said.

He has expressed akin concerns successful the past, saying that portion the mean property of the colonisation successful Andhra Pradesh is presently 32, it would beryllium 40 by 2047.

On August 7, the authorities Cabinet repealed the regularisation that barred those with much than 2 children from contesting successful section assemblage elections.

“I was staunchly successful favour of colonisation power erstwhile upon a time, and brought successful authorities barring persons having much than 2 children from contesting elections… I was acrophobic that a immense colonisation would origin shortages of water, land, and different resources. You listened to maine and brought down the colonisation successful Andhra Pradesh successful conscionable 10 years. Now, I americium acrophobic that we won’t person capable young colonisation successful our state,” Naidu said Saturday.