 statement of objects and reasonssince independence our population has grown leaps and bounds and has already crossed one billion mark today we are the second highest populous country after china this tremendous increase in population has resulted in many socio-economic problems like shortage of housing, educational facilities, food and potable water, civic amenities, unemployment, environmental degradation, health facilities, transport facilities etc the overcrowding is also resulting in law and order situation and also widening the gap between the heaves and have nots and it is consistently creating explosive situation in fact there is no balance between the population growth and the infrastructure and available opportunities if the present trend of population growth continues it will not be possible for us to tackle these problems effectively as they will be beyond our control so if we have to survive we have to go for population control therefore the time has come when stringent measures to control the population growth have to initiated on warfootings otherwise our future generations will certainly not forgive us for this fatal lapse it has not become necessary to give incentives to those who opt for family planning and disincentives and even prison to those contributing excessively to population explosion hence this bill kb krishnamurthyclause 3 of the bill provides for publicity by central government to promote one child norm in the country clause 4 provides for various incentives for adopting family planning clause 7 provides for the establishment of population control fund the bill if enacted will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india and it is estimated that rupees one thousand crore will involve as recurring expenditure per annum a non-recurring expenditure of rupees two hundred crores is also likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 10 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this bill the rules will relate to matters of details only the delegation of legislative power ts of normal character