Sikkim govt offers incentives for more kids.
Sikkim CM Prem Sing Tamang aims to encourage childbirth among indigenous communities to combat declining fertility rates in the country's least populous state,proposing a special increment to women employees giving birth to a second baby and two increments for a third child.
The proposal to encourage people to have more children, possibly a first by any state,comes just over a year after the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha-led cabinets November 14,2021,announcement that women in government service would be entitled to 365 days of maternity leave while new father's could avail 30 days' paternity leave.
We need to arrest the declining fertility rates with incentives for local people to produce more children,news agency PTI quoted Tamang as saying at a Meghe Sankranti function in Jorethang town of south Sikkim on Sunday.Sikkim's fertility rates registered the lowest growth rate at one child per woman in recent years.
The chief minister said general people living in Sikkim and having more than one child would also be eligible for financial assistance,the modalities for which would be worked out by the health and women and child care departments.
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