The south’s success in population control has triggered economic & political tensions. But, contrary to what south’s netas say, the answer is not higher fertility but settling out-of-state workers locally
Last week, Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu urged couples to have more children to fight the burden of an ageing population in the state. The next day, his counterpart Tamil Nadu CM Stalin invoked a Tamil saying – a large family is a happy family – to ask his people to adopt a large family norm.
Although the two chief ministers nuanced the issue differently, the underlying message was unmistakably clear: Don’t penalise states that have succeeded in population control. If you do, we have no alternative but to grow our populations.
Although the two chief ministers nuanced the issue differently, the underlying message was unmistakably clear: Don’t penalise states that have succeeded in population control. If you do, we have no alternative but to grow our populations.