 statement of objects and reasonsfor the last fity years, india has doubled its population and by the turn of the century india shall have three out of ten most populous cities in the world, and half the population of these cities would be living in slums under squalid conditions it is expected that within another 10—20 years, india will be the most populous country in the world without massive public contributions for air pollution control and perspective planning, living conditions in all urban areas will progressively deteriorate the breakdown of the civic amenities due to over crowding, law and order situation, unemployment and widening of the gap between the haves and haves-not has progressively created an explosive situation the need for housing is far beyond the available finances and educational facilities are hopelessly inadequate to meet the existing demands there is no balance between population growth and the infrastructure and available opportunities with the existing resources and it will not be possible to meet the demands of growing population, the country has achieved the production targets but due to over population it is becoming insufficient and the progress of the country is hampered therefore, the time has come when strong measures have become essential and if such measures are not taken at the earliest, it-will create a havoc therefore, the bill seeks to provide for a new population policy hence this bill new dewy; uttamrao dhikale july 24, 2000 financial memorandumclauses 3 to 5 of the bill provides that certain benefits are to be given to thsoe who have no child or who have one child or who have two children clause 7 provides for introduction of compulsory subject relating to population control in all educational institutions, clause 17 provides for establishing national population control fund to which the central government shall also contribute, the central government shall have to incur some expenditure for implementing the provisions of this bill in respect of union territories the state governments will incur expenditure in respect of their state out of their respective consolidated funds, the bill, therefore, will involve an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees one thousand crore out of the consolidated fund of india a non-recurring expenditure of about rupees one hundred crore is also likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationowers the central government to make rules for carrying clause 22 of the bill emp! out the provisions of the bill the delegation of legislative as the rules to be made will relate to matters of details only, power is of a normal character,