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. Select the correct answer using the codes given below. Codes :
- (a)Only 1
- (b)Only 2
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
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.
- (a)Only 1 — 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)Only 2 — 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)Neither 1 nor 2 — 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.
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.
This is current-affairs recall keyed to the policy's own figures, so answer to those figures rather than to independent demographic data. Treat 2.1 and 2.7 as TFR values (children per woman); the exam's 'per thousand' phrasing is imprecise. Because the official key accepts both statements, the reasoning is simply to recognise that both numbers come straight from the 2021 policy document, giving 'Both 1 and 2'.
- Draft UP Population (Control, Stabilisation and Welfare) Bill, 2021 — released July 2021 with the UP Population Policy 2021-2030.
- Policy target: reduce gross fertility rate (TFR) from 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026, and to 1.9 by 2030.
- 2.1 is the 'replacement level' of fertility — the level at which a population just replaces itself.
- 2.1 and 2.7 are total-fertility-rate figures (per woman); the question's 'per thousand' wording is loose.
- Treating 2.1 / 2.7 as 'per thousand' rates — they are total fertility rates (children per woman)
- Confusing this UP Bill/policy with the National Population Policy 2000 (which set the same 2.1 replacement target nationally)
State-scheme current affairs are asked as statement-based true/false on the scheme's stated aims and figures — learn the headline number and target year.
Consider the following statements: 1. India is the second country in the world to adopt a National Family Planning Programme. 2. The National Population Policy of India, 2000 seeks to achieve replacement level of fertility by 2010 with a population of 111 crores. 3. Kerala is the first State in India to achieve replacement level of fertility. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 1 and 2
- (c) 2 and 3
- (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer(c) 2 and 3
Same concept — a population policy targeting replacement-level fertility (TFR 2.1); the UP 2021 policy sets the same 2.1 goal at the State level that NPP-2000 set nationally.
The total fertility rate in an economy is defined as :
- (a) the number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year
- (b) the number of children born to a couple in their lifetime in a given population
- (c) the birth rate minus death rate
- (d) the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child-bearing age
Answer(d) the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child-bearing age
Same concept — it defines the total fertility rate, the measure behind the 2.1 and 2.7 figures in this UP Bill question (and clarifies TFR is per woman, not 'per thousand').
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 'replacement level of fertility', at which a population tends to remain stable over time, corresponds to a total fertility rate of about
- (a)1.5
- (b)2.1
- (c)3.0
- (d)4.0
Answer(b) 2.1 — the TFR at which each generation just replaces itself; the target of the UP Population Policy by 2026.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Uttar Pradesh Population Policy 2021-2030 was unveiled on the occasion of which day in July 2021?
- (a)World Health Day
- (b)World Population Day
- (c)World Environment Day
- (d)World Youth Skills Day
Answer(b) World Population Day (11 July) — the day the UP government released its 2021-2030 population policy.