Draft Population Management Policy to incentivise dad and mom having third youngster

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched the Draft Population Management Policy, whose goal is to boost the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 1.5 to an optimum stage of two.1, within the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, thereby reversing the declining fertility charge and put together the State for an growing older society by 2047.

To encourage dad and mom to have a 3rd youngster, he proposed an incentive of ₹25,000, noting that inaction at this stage would trigger quite a lot of issues like in Japan, Italy and South Korea with 1.2, 1.2 and 0.7 TFRs they had been going through. The new coverage had been focused to be carried out from April 1, 2026.

Making a press release on the coverage, the Chief Minister noticed that the State’s TFR was properly beneath the substitute stage of two.1, and if the development continued, almost 23% of the inhabitants could be aged. If the falling TFR was not stopped, the State would have a shrinking workforce and it could cripple the financial system, he noticed.

The State, subsequently, set the aim to stabilise the TFR at 2.1 and almost double ladies’s participation in labour pressure to spice up the Gross State Domestic Product by 15%.

Mr. Naidu stated, as a part of the efforts to extend the TFR, the federal government would give a “Poshana – Shiksha – Suraksha” package deal for the households having a 3rd youngster, underneath which the inducement could be paid on the time of supply and ₹1,000 month-to-month help for 5 years and free training to the kid as much as age 18.

He acknowledged that as on date about 58% of the households (three lakh) had just one youngster, round 2.17 lakh households had two kids, and almost 62 lakh households (three lakh) had three or extra kids.

Mr. Naidu stated as economies develop, delivery charges have a tendency to say no, creating workforce shortages and long-term financial challenges. The draft coverage doc was being positioned within the public area for one month to facilitate intensive deliberations, after which it could be given a remaining form, he knowledgeable the House, whereas stressing the necessity to evolve the inhabitants coverage in tune with the altering demographic realities.

“Andhra Pradesh is now mirroring Tamil Nadu (TFR of 1.4) and Kerala (1.6). We are no longer a high fertility State. The situation requires an entirely new policy playbook,” he added.