Andhra Pradesh MP announces Rs 50,000, cow as incentive to women for having third child

Telugu Desam Party MP Kalisetty Appalanaidu on Saturday announced an incentive of Rs 50,000 or a cow for women in Andhra Pradesh who give birth to a third child, reported ANI, quoting the state Information and Public Relations department.

Speaking at an event in his constituency, Vizianagaram, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the MP announced that Rs 50,000 from his salary will be given to a woman if she has a third child who is a girl. If that child is a boy, she will be given a cow.

This came on the same day Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced that maternity leave would be granted for all employees irrespective of the number of children they have, reported Deccan Herald.

Until now, women employees received six months of paid maternity leave for their first two deliveries.

“My announcement follows calls by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Naidu, on the steps to be taken for population growth along with the offers given by both of them for having a third child,” Appalanaidu told The Indian Express. “We are asking women to have more children, and we will provide incentives if a third child is born.”

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