No plan for population control measure: Karnataka Law Minister Basavaraj Bommai

Karnataka Law Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the BJP government in the state had no plans to roll out an Uttar Pradesh-like population control law while adding that a decision will be taken after “discussion and deliberation”.

Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has released a draft proposal on population control that seeks to exclude people with more than two children from availing government schemes, with incentives for those with less than two offspring.

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“These are policy matters that need to be discussed and deliberated upon,” Bommai said. “Population control has been there for a long time. There’s also family planning, which is different from incentivizing population control. It has to be deliberated. We will take a call,” Bommai said.