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Responding to a PIL by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has rejected the need to have a mandatory two-child norm or frame a specific law on limiting the size of families in the country.
After his plea was rejected by the Delhi High Court, Upadhyay has moved the Supreme Court for introducing a population control law. He said that the constitutional rights to clean air, drinking water, health, livelihood and education cannot be secured to all citizens without controlling the population.
The Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the size of their family and adopt the family planning methods, best suited to them, according to their choice, without any compulsion.
The Family Welfare Programme enables couples to decide the size of their family and adopt the family planning methods, according to their choice, without any compulsion, said the ministry.
"International experience shows that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter productive and leads to demographic distortions,” the ministry explained.
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