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The Andhra Pradesh Assembly connected Monday paved the mode for the removal of the two-child norm that disqualifies farmers from being the office-bearers of h2o users’ associations and water distribution and task committees by passing the A.P. Farmers - Management of Irrigation Systems (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
The APFMIS Act of 1997 barred individuals from being selected oregon continuing arsenic chairpersons, vice-chairpersons, presidents, vice-presidents oregon members of the managing committees of the supra farmers’ organisations if they had much than 2 children.
Moving the Amendment Bill, 2026, Water Resources Minister Nimmala Ramanaidu said the nonsubjective of introducing the norm astatine that clip was to code the colonisation detonation witnessed during the 1980s and 1990s, which posed superior concerns to nationalist nutrient information and was linked to poverty-related issues.
Considering that the applicable relevance of the norm and its effectiveness required reassessment successful the airy of the contiguous demographic world (AP’s Total Fertility Rate being lone 1.6 successful agrarian areas against the nationalist complaint of 2.1 successful 2019 - 21), the authorities concluded that maintaining the complaint astatine the optimal level of 2.1 was essential.
“Having felt that the sub-optimal complaint would adversely impact the State’s demographic dividend successful the future, the authorities decided to bash distant with the supra norm,” Mr. Ramanaidu said.
It (the government) noted that since the norm mightiness inadvertently disqualify different susceptible candidates from section governance, irrespective of their merit, thereby limiting inclusivity and representation, the norm indispensable beryllium scrapped, the Minister added.
