The Poor as a Problem – 2001
LAXMI KAMBLE lives in a one-room shack near the Goregaon bus terminus in Mumbai, along with her unemployed husband and their four children, the first three of the girls. In August, the Maharashtra government, it would seem, decided that people like the Kambles are enemies of progress because they have too many children. Starting next year, it plans to cut off access to over 60 state-run welfare programs to people who violate the two-child norm. Newly appointed government employees will have to commit in writing to a two-child family. The state will only provide free school education to the first two children of a family and will even cut off access to subsidized food grains, sugar and kerosene through the Public Distribution System (PDS) for any children born after the second one. People who have more than two children will not even be entitled to stand for election to local bodies.
Source: https://frontline.thehindu.com/static/html/fl1720/17200410.htm
