New Delhi: The Central government has categorically stated in the country's largest court that it is against forcing the countrymen to do family planning and to determine the number of children. Doing so will create demographic distortions. In an affidavit filed in response to a petition filed in the case, the Union Health Ministry said that the family welfare programme is carried out voluntarily in the country.

He said that under the family welfare programme, married couples have the freedom to have their family planning and can adopt any procedure for how they want to increase their family. Under the Family Welfare programme, a married couple can do family planning according to their will and without any obligation. BJP leader and lawyer Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay has filed a petition in the apex court against the Delhi High Court order.

The High Court had rejected some more demands, including the two-child norm, to control the growing population of the country. The ministry said that public health is a state subject and the state governments should take the lead in the process of health sector reforms so as to protect the common people from health hazards.

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