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If in Russia they think how to increase the birth rate, then in India, on the contrary, how to reduce it. Overpopulation is one of the global problems of this country.
Probably many have heard (the older generation, for example, knows this good), how in China they struggled with fertility: they simply banned it a family to have more than one child. By the way, we note that such the ban in the PRC has long been lifted.
The leadership of India took a different path, here, starting from the second half of the last century, sterilization is actively promoted. Moreover, everyone who decides on it (it doesn’t matter if this is a man or woman) receives certain benefits from the state: real estate, land holdings, tax breaks and much more. All these birth control programs are still active in India today, another thing is that the approach to incentive measures is improving, becoming more universal and effective.
However, on the other hand, there are serious excesses, which are reflected in the ageless Russian proverb, born, apparently, during the time of Peter the Great: if in Moscow beards are shaved, then heads are already being chopped in places. In individual states Indian journalists, to their great surprise, suddenly found that you can not only be fined for stowaways on the train, or put him in jail for several days, but even … sterilize. Here there really is no limit to the ingenuity of officials seeking to please the higher management …
And finally, we add that only for the current century more than 8 millions of Indians have been sterilized. Mostly of course voluntarily, what percentage of them was the victim of bureaucratic arbitrariness – is unknown.
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