With reference to the 'Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare' Bill, 2021 which of the following(s) is/are correct ?
1. This Bill aims to bring the birth rate down to 2.1 per thou

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With reference to the 'Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare' Bill, 2021 which of the following(s) is/are correct ?
1. This Bill aims to bring the birth rate down to 2.1 per thousands population by 2026.
2. At present, the fertility rate in the State is 2.7 per thousand.
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Correct — C, Both 1 and 2 (as per the official key). The draft Bill was released in July 2021 alongside the Uttar Pradesh Population Policy 2021-2030, and both statements reproduce the targets stated in that policy. Statement 1: the policy's headline goal is to bring the gross fertility rate down to 2.1 by 2026 (and further to 1.9 by 2030) — the figure the question calls the 'birth rate ... 2.1 ... by 2026'. Statement 2: the policy takes the State's then-current total fertility rate of 2.7 as its baseline. Since both numbers match the policy's own stated figures, the key marks both statements correct. Note that 2.1 and 2.7 are total-fertility-rate figures (average children per woman), so the question's phrase 'per thousand' is a loose description — but that wording does not change what the Bill/policy actually targets.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Wrong per the key — it accepts the 2.1-by-2026 target but rejects statement 2, whereas 2.7 is the baseline fertility figure the policy itself cites.  (b) Wrong per the key — it accepts the 2.7 baseline but rejects statement 1, yet reducing the rate to 2.1 by 2026 is the policy's central stated goal.  (d) Wrong per the key — both figures (2.1 by 2026, and 2.7 as the current level) are drawn directly from the UP Population Policy 2021-2030 that accompanied the Bill.

Concept: The draft 'Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill, 2021', prepared by the UP State Law Commission and released around World Population Day 2021, proposed incentives for two-child families and restrictions for larger ones. It was published together with the UP Population Policy 2021-2030, which set the numerical targets — cutting the total fertility rate (TFR) from 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026 and to 1.9 by 2030 — that this question quotes.

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