Two Child Norm Bill, 2010
A BILL to provide for population control through promotion of voluntary sterilization among eligible couples having two living children and measures for promoting two child norm and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short titles extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Two Child Norm Act, 2010.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "appropriate Government" means in the case of a State, the Government of that state and in all other cases, the Central Government.
3. Central Govt. to Promote two Child Norm.- It shall be the duty of the Central Government to encourage, promote and motivate couples to adopt two child norm with a view to ensuring decline in birth rate and control; the rising population in the country.
4. Families.- One family shall consist of husband and wife and shall have two living children.
5. Period of expiration of the Act.- The provisions of this Act shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of ten years from the commencement of this Act.
6. Appropriation Govt. to provide benefits to couple having one child who undergo sterilization.- If either the husband or the wife having only one living child on the date commencement of this act, voluntarily undergoes sterilization, the appropriate Govt. Shall provide the couple with the following benefits, namely:-
(a) free education including higher education to such child;
(b) suitable employment to such child after he completes his education; and
(c) such other benefits as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act.
7. Person working under the Govt. to give undertaking.- (1) Any person who is serving in connection with the affairs of the Union or of State or in any undertaking or organization under the control of the Government as the case may be, and who has only two children or who has not procreated any child or who is unmarried on the date of commencement of this Act, shall give an undertaking that he shall not procreate more than two children.
(2) Any person violating the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be subject to such disciplinary action as may be determined by the appropriate Government.
8. Penalty.- Any person...
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