New Delhi: Late night TV can control population--Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was probably joking when he said that but it may create a controversy.
“If there is electricity in every village then people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity there is nothing else to do but produce babies,” said Azad at a population control conference on Saturday.
Azad also suggested that couples who marry after 30 should be rewarded. "Only people who opt to marry at 30-31 should be awarded," he said.
India’s development cannot keep pace with the growth in population, and the media, bureaucracy and civil society must tell people about this. "The fight in the future and at present is between the haves and the have nots. The Naxalite movement is a result of this," he was quoted by PTI as saying.
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