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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu introduced the Draft Population Management Policy, whose nonsubjective is to rise the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 1.5 to an optimal level of 2.1, successful the Legislative Assembly connected Thursday, thereby reversing the declining fertility complaint and hole the State for an aging nine by 2047.
To promote parents to person a 3rd child, helium projected an inducement of ₹25,000, noting that inaction astatine this signifier would origin a batch of problems similar successful Japan, Italy and South Korea with 1.2, 1.2 and 0.7 TFRs they were facing. The caller argumentation had been targeted to beryllium implemented from April 1, 2026.
Making a connection connected the policy, the Chief Minister observed that the State’s TFR was good beneath the replacement level of 2.1, and if the inclination continued, astir 23% of the colonisation would beryllium elderly. If the falling TFR was not stopped, the State would person a shrinking workforce and it would cripple the economy, helium observed.
The State, therefore, acceptable the extremity to stabilise the TFR astatine 2.1 and astir treble women’s information successful labour unit to boost the Gross State Domestic Product by 15%.
Mr. Naidu said, arsenic portion of the efforts to summation the TFR, the authorities would springiness a “Poshana - Shiksha - Suraksha” bundle for the families having a 3rd child, nether which the inducement would beryllium paid astatine the clip of transportation and ₹1,000 monthly assistance for 5 years and escaped acquisition to the kid up to property 18.
He stated that arsenic connected day astir 58% of the families (three lakh) had lone 1 child, astir 2.17 lakh families had 2 children, and astir 62 lakh families (three lakh) had 3 oregon much children.
Mr. Naidu said arsenic economies grow, commencement rates thin to decline, creating workforce shortages and semipermanent economical challenges. The draught argumentation papers was being placed successful the nationalist domain for 1 period to facilitate extended deliberations, aft which it would beryllium fixed a last shape, helium informed the House, portion stressing the request to germinate the colonisation argumentation successful tune with the changing demographic realities.
“Andhra Pradesh is present mirroring Tamil Nadu (TFR of 1.4) and Kerala (1.6). We are nary longer a precocious fertility State. The concern requires an wholly caller argumentation playbook,” helium added.
