MP to lift two-child rule in govt jobs:Relief for over 30,000 teachers and staff

The two-child restriction in government jobs is going to be lifted. The General Administration Department has prepared the proposal and it has been agreed upon. It will soon be placed before the Cabinet. After this, no employee will be dismissed for having a third child. According to sources, the Chief Minister has given in-principle approval to the proposal. This restriction was implemented in 2001 by the Digvijaya Singh government by amending the Civil Services Rules, 1961. Changing the rule will bring relief to about 30,000 teachers who have more than two children. Now, who else will benefit from the change in rules, which departments will get relief, and what will happen to pending cases? Read the full report Why is the rule being changed? In a few years, questions were raised about the relevance of this rule. It was considered against individual liberty. Recently, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), emphasized having three children. Following this, the process of change accelerated. On February 18, in Lucknow, Mohan Bhagwat expressed concern over the declining population, stating that an average of three children is necessary for the survival of society. A society where families do not have three children will cease to exist in the future. He explained this scientifically, citing India’s fertility rate of 2.1. Understand the impact of the decision in 5 points The decision is being welcomed in departments like school education, higher education, and health. Here, 8-10 thousand cases were pending. The severity of the rule can be gauged from the fact that even a judge had to lose their job. Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have already lifted the ban Madhya Pradesh is not the first state. Rajasthan’s Vasundhara Raje government lifted this ban on May 11, 2016, and Chhattisgarh’s Raman Singh government on July 14, 2017. In these states, employees with three children are working without hindrance. Andhra Pradesh has announced an incentive of 25 thousand rupees for the third child. Understand the fear of job loss, which heavily impacts innocents, through two cases Case 1: When the fourth child was born, they buried him alive
This case is from September 30 last year. Babloo Dandolia, a teacher at Nandanwadi Primary School in Chhindwara, already had three children. Fearing losing his job, Babloo hid the information about his wife Rajkumari’s pregnancy. On September 23, around 3 AM, the child was born at home. After this, the couple took the newborn to the forest of Nandanwadi village. Here they abandoned the child and covered him with stones. The next day, when villagers went towards the forest, they heard the sound of a child crying. When they removed the stones and looked, the innocent child was alive. Due to being exposed to the cold all night and ant bites, he had developed an infection. The villagers took him to the hospital. Case 2: Daughter’s name not added to Samagra ID
This case is also from Chhindwara. Superintendent Kailash Suryavanshi, posted at the ashram in Harrai block, married Sushma from Chhindwara after divorcing his first wife. He has two children from his first wife, while he has one daughter from his second wife. Due to the government rule of two children, Kailash did not add his second wife’s daughter’s name to the government record (Samagra ID). Because of this, the daughter’s education stopped. When the wife pressured her husband to add the name, he went back to his first wife. Sushma had complained about this in the public hearing.