 statement of objects and reasonsit is projected that by the turn of the century india shall have three out of the ten most populous cities of the world, and half the population of these cities would be living in slums under squalid conditions actually, without massive public contributions for sewerage, water treatment, air pollution control and perspective planning, living conditions in all urban areas will progressively deteriorate the need to accommodate the future needs within the nation's natural capabilities and resources has given rise to unparallel transformation of human values, social institutions and economic structures the break-down of civic amenities due to over-crowding, law and order situation, unemployment and widening of the gap between the haves and have nots has progressively created an explosive situation agricultural land holdings are fast becoming small and uneconomical, the need for housing are far beyond the available finances and educational facilities are hopelessly inadequate to meet with the existing demands let alone the future ones there is no balance between population growth and the infrastructure and available opportunities in a world moving towards working out an optimum human carrying capacity of given regions, based on a population, resource and development inter-relationship in already densely populated nation like india can hardly expect to achieve a quality of life by adding further to her numbers the provisions of the bill are, therefore, the most effective method to achieve the targeted goal the laudable goals spelt out in the directive principles of state policy in the consti- _ tution of india can best be achieved if the population explosion is checked continuous - pregnancies badly affect the health of a woman the population explosion has added to the - poverty of the people and increases the crime rate also all round progress made by the country has almost been brought to nought by this single factor every additional child born above the projected rate of population growth is a liability on the scarce resources' of the nation time has come where taking of some strong measures has become essential and if such measures are not taken at the earliest the future generations may not forgive us for this lapse the bill seeks to address to this urgent problem through certain measures  financial memorandumclause 5 of the bill provides for certain benefits to be given to those who undergo sterilisation voluntarily clause 6 provides for introduction of compulsory subject relating to population control in all educational institutions clause 8 provides for establishing national population stabilisation 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 five hundred crore out of the consolidated fund of india a non-recurring expenditure is of about rupees one hundred crore is also likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 14 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the bill as the rules to be made relate to matters of detail only, the " delegation of legislative power is of a normal character