A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Union Government to implement ‘two-child policy’ across the country.
The petition also stated that the government should promote family planning and adopt all such measures to encourage the people of the country to follow the two-children norm.
The petition has been filed by activists Anupam Bajpai through Advocate Shiv Kumar Tripathi, which states that the citizens should have a limit in giving birth, which should be fixed as maximum of two children failing which the concerned person shall attract disqualification with respect to government facilities and other benefits being provided by the government to its citizens.
The two-child norm is family-size control policy, which encourages parents to limit their families to two children.
In India, apart from national level promoting of family planning, the two child norm is effective in certain states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan.
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