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Population control

India is now the world’s most populous nation – but there’s no reason to be worried

Nachiket Deuskar
· Feb 01, 2023 · 09:00 am
Why punitive population-control measures are harmful and distract from the real problem – inequality

Sushant Kumar
· Sep 16, 2022 · 09:00 am
Population control law will be introduced soon, says Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel

Scroll Staff
· Jun 01, 2022 · 10:49 am
Need population control Bill to curb growing poverty, diseases, says BJP MP

Scroll Staff
· Dec 04, 2021 · 05:49 pm
Uttar Pradesh’s population control plan is not only unconstitutional – it may also be disastrous

Abhishek Sudhir
· Jul 22, 2021 · 06:30 am
Assam plans to form ‘population army’ to curb birth rate in Muslim areas

Scroll Staff
· Jul 20, 2021 · 02:27 pm
As UP BJP leaders call for population control plan, 50% of party MLAs have more than two children

Vijayta Lalwani
· Jul 14, 2021 · 09:00 am
UP’s draft population control bill proposes two-child policy, violations include no government jobs

Scroll Staff
· Jul 10, 2021 · 09:16 pm
In China, the ‘one-child policy’ has left about a million bereaved parents alone in old age

Lihong Shi, The Conversation
· Jul 02, 2021 · 09:30 pm
Coercing people into family planning would be counter-productive, Centre tells Supreme Court

Scroll Staff
· Dec 13, 2020 · 01:37 pm
From 2021, no government jobs in Assam for people with more than two children

Scroll Staff
· Oct 22, 2019 · 12:59 pm
Opinion: Why India must shift its lens from ‘population control’ to ‘population development’

Devender Singh
· Jul 11, 2019 · 06:30 am
Delhi High Court seeks Centre’s response on plea to implement two-child policy

Scroll Staff
· May 29, 2019 · 02:39 pm
BJP’s Giriraj Singh backs Ramdev’s call to deny voting rights to third child to check population

Scroll Staff
· May 28, 2019 · 04:21 pm
Ramdev is wrong, India should not adopt a punitive approach to population control

Kanika Sharma Mohan Rao
· Feb 12, 2019 · 02:30 pm
Revoke the voting rights of those who have more than two children, says Ramdev

Scroll Staff
· Jan 24, 2019 · 10:45 am
Why is the burden of sterilisation on women in India? The answer lies in the Emergency era

Hannah Harris Green
· Oct 10, 2018 · 01:30 pm
A plant toxin African hunters use on their arrows could help make a safe birth control pill for men

Gunda Georg, The Conversation Jon Hawkinson, The Conversation Shameem Syeda, The Conversation
· Feb 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Poor Indian women have been paying the price of bad reproductive rights ideas from the US

Mohan Rao
· Dec 09, 2016 · 02:30 pm
Sterilisation deaths are the natural consequence of India’s obsession with population control

Sandhya Srinivasan
· Sep 16, 2016 · 02:30 pm