Chandrababu Naidu says ‘have more kids, keep Andhra Pradesh young’  

N Chandrababu Naidu

The Andhra Pradesh chief minister, N Chandrababu Naidu, on Friday, offered incentives to couples who are willing to have more than two children. He also phased out the norm barring candidates with more than two children from contesting in the upcoming civic and panchayat elections.

After introducing his policy for promoting population he said that there is a drop in population by 1.6 per cent in the last 10 years.

He said, “It is high time to correct the trends indicating demographic imbalances, lest the state may turn senile in the next two decades, marked by more eating mouths and less working hands.”

 He further added that the youth below the age of 25 constitute around 50 per cent of the state’s total population and emphasized on the need to keep the state young by way of pushing up the representation of young people.

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