While the rising raw material cost and falling steel prices have been worrying top steel company honchos, Sajjan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel, has expressed concerns over rising population and has called for measures to curb the rise.

Jindal told BusinessLine that if the two-child policy is implemented in India, both the children will get quality education rather than 4-5 children in a family.

A young and reduced population will help the Indian economy to grow in a much speedier and healthy way, he said.

During the last monsoon session, a few MPs submitted a draft Population Control Bill to President Ram Nath Kovind.

Earlier this year, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, a BJP leader from Delhi, had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre for making the two-child policy mandatory for politicians to contest election.

Lately, Jindal has also been upfront on his concern over high population on social media tagging top government officials.

Curbing India’s population of over 1.34 billion should be the “national agenda” and if need be, should adopt sterilisation, one of the most controversial measures adopted during the Emergency days to achieve it, said Jindal.

Quoting various reports, Jindal said that India will be the most populous country overtaking China by 2030. This is expected to slow down the overall economic growth, he said.

The population of China’s Beijing, with over 21 million residents, has fallen for the first time in 2017 post the introduction of the two-child policy.

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