One Child Policy: A Way Forward Or Not
In this article author has discussed about the one child policy as according
to United Nation the World population has reached 8 billion people on November
15,2022, Visualizing the gravity and magnitude of the enormous increase in
population it becomes important to discuss the one-child policy and its
importance. In this article we will understand one-child policy from India's
perspective as now India overtakes China as the world's most populous country,
so we will try to find out that whether one child policy should be implemented
in India or not? We will also try to analyse and evaluate the impact of the
policy on Indians.
Introduction
Only making the laws shall not be the primary work of Parliament. Parliament
shall check whether that law can be implemented properly or not? At the time of
birth, there can be 3 chances i.e., of a male, female, or transgender. If we're
talking about the one-child policy, then I just want to ask, have we achieved
the right to equality enshrined in our constitution? Article 14 states about
equality before law.
The state shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal
protection of the laws within the territory of India. Does law treat a male,
female and a transgender equally? If not then it is clear that one that is
superior will be preferred in the society. There is no doubt that the population
has increased massively but one child policy can put the society under pressure.
Right to equality in practice:
We are Indian families and, in our country, children are deeply connected to
their parents and have the feeling and tradition to act as the spine of their
old age parents, due to this policy all the family burden will come on the
shoulders of one child. Another problem is that India has not achieved the Right
to Equality in its true sense due to which people will avoid girls and
transgender as they are discriminated and it is the reality from this
discrimination even High Court advocate Saurabh Kirpal can't escape, government
had stated Mr. Kirpal's "intimate relationship" with his Swiss partner, his
openness about his sexuality and possibility of bias because of his passionate
advocacy for gay rights as his minuses for not appointing Saurabh as a judge
whereas The Collegium said the fact that Mr. Kirpal is open about his sexual
orientation goes to his credit.
The decision clearly discourages the community from coming forward. State has to
ensure equality to each and every person the lawyer's sexual orientation is his
constitutionally recognized right. Situation of 3rd gender is extremely poor in
the society people uses their name as a slang in the society but still we don't
have any law to prevent atrocities and discrimination against them violence
against them and this results in economic marginalization and poverty, also
their participation in the legislature, executive, judiciary is extremely poor.
Article 21 states about right to life and personal liberty now what type of
liberty is it that a person's mind is subjected to continuous sense of fear from
the society and state that if the person will be identified as a 3rd gender,
then the person has to face consequences from the society and state.
There is no doubt that the status of women has improved in the society but is it
sufficient? we hear regularly about a term called Marital rape people against it
says that it will ruin the institution of marriage and it is improbable but now
just assume a situation with me - There is female named Q she marries to W a
male now one day Q was on her periods and her back was in pain so she was lying
on her bed now her husband came to home after drinking alcohol and asked Q for
sexual intercourse but as she was in pain she denied. Now W gets angry and
forced her for sexual intercourse and anyhow completed his desire the girl keeps
objecting but W by hook or by crook completed his desire against her will and
consent.
Now isn't this rape, only because she is the wife it doesn't mean she has lost
her right to choose and decide. Is it her duty to satisfy her husband even
against her will? Doesn't it feel now that we need laws to deal with this
problem? Now we have an example of Nagaland that in 14 assembly election
conducted between 1964 and 2018, Nagaland has not elected 1 woman MLA it's not
because they had not won the election it's also because until now only 6 women
has contested for the election also In Judiciary, we are still waiting for the
first woman chief justice of India.
In India, girls are called or known as Paraya Dhan which means that one day the
girl will have to leave their parent's house and she will become part of the
other family. These all discussion were to state that if one-child policy will
come in India people will prefer Male over other genders due to these reasons
female infanticide and foeticide, murders will increase and the sex ratio will
also get affected.
Mismanagement Of Resources:
The population has increased and the resources are limited, but the point is
India has ample number of resources and the mismanagement of it and growing
inequality is the major reason for the crisis, India still lacks specific
legislation to address the problem of refugees despite their increasing in-flow.
India has the largest number of refugees in the world.
Currently, we have two lakh Refugee from Tibet, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and Myanmar and there are also Illegal immigrants, to reduce
unemployment reducing the number of people is not good, the need is to make
changes in the education system by introducing some new policies as we have the
largest number of youths in the world. The need is for proper management and
schemes by which the youth will be equipped with the skills needed to survive in
this modern world.
Our youth is not luggage on our shoulders, but are our future who will take our
country to new heights. State should also promote Adoption among parents. If
people are getting birth they are dying too, there are 24.02 million birth in
India in 2021 and there are 10.23 million deaths in India in 2021, so anything
implemented should be judged based on the society on which it is going to be
applied and it should consider the future consequences.
Some simulations predicted that by the year 2050 More than one-third of Chinese
citizens will have no sisters and brothers people will become sister less,
brotherless and even they will have no uncle, no aunts, no cousins and according
to China Population and Development Research Center China's fertility rate
dipped to an unprecedented low at 1.09 in 2022. These are the Unintended
consequences of the one-child policy that was implemented in China to reduce
population.
Conclusion:
In India family is a very important aspect of everyone's life particularly in
rural areas where we have the concept of a joint family who together carry out
agricultural activities. One child policy will be a direct attack on the
traditional Indian society system. In India, people are attached to their
families heartedly and in this world of stress and pain the policy will snatch
their happiness by ruining their family system the policy also creates an issue
of the ageing population as by 2050 the proportion of Chinese over retirement
age will become 39% of the total population. So, these issues work as a
parameter to us in deciding whether the policy will be beneficial or will be
hazardous for mankind.
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