On July 11, UP authorities introduced a brand new inhabitants coverage for 2021-2030. (Representational)
Noida:
The Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has obtained over 8,000 ideas from throughout the nation, together with southern states and Jammu and Kashmir, over a proposed draft Bill for inhabitants management, officers mentioned at the moment.
Suggestions have additionally are available in from eminent individuals, together with excessive courtroom judges and legal professionals of the Supreme Court, the officers mentioned.
The draft Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill, 2021 was put up on the web site of the UP Law Commission earlier this month and ideas have been invited from the general public over it until July 19.
“We have received over 8,000 suggestions from across the country. Suggestions have also come from many eminent persons, including judges of high courts and lawyers of the Supreme Court,” Law Commission Chairman Justice A N Mittal advised PTI.
“We are in the process of going through the suggestions. The good suggestions will be incorporated in the draft while critical ones will also be taken into consideration,” Justice Mittal, who drafted the proposed Bill, mentioned over the cellphone.
He expressed the hope of sending a report based mostly on the ideas for the important thing proposed regulation to the federal government in August.
Law Commission Secretary Sapna Tripathi mentioned the ideas on the regulation panel’s e mail id and thru publish have come not solely from Uttar Pradesh however throughout the nation.
“There have been suggestions from states in the southern part of the country as well as the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” she advised PTI.
She mentioned after the evaluation of the ideas is over, the regulation fee would ship its report together with the draft invoice to the state authorities for its perusal.
With its inhabitants estimated at over 23 crore, Uttar Pradesh is India’s most populous state.
However, the proposed regulation turned a flashpoint within the state with opposition Congress and Samajwadi Party questioning its timing as the following meeting elections in UP are due in early 2022. On World Population Day, the Yogi Adityanath authorities had introduced a brand new inhabitants coverage for 2021-2030.
