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Rs 40,000 for more babies? Chandrababu Naidu’s plan is misguided | LME 137 | Pooja Prasanna

7 min · 19 mei 2026
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu wants people to have more children. The AP government is now offering Rs 30,000 for a third child and Rs 40,000 for a fourth. At first, this may sound like just another political headline. But behind it lies a real anxiety shared by many southern states — falling fertility rates, ageing populations, shrinking workforces, and fears of losing political representation in the future. But can governments really solve these problems by simply asking people to have more babies? From Andhra’s demographic fears and delimitation politics to women’s unpaid labour and collapsing public infrastructure, this episode of Let Me Explain looks at the bigger questions behind Naidu’s population push. Watch LME on delimitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26rwMdF_Y2U&t=275s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26rwMdF_Y2U&t=275s] Like Pooja’s LME? Support the show: https://rzp.io/rzp/support-lme [https://rzp.io/rzp/support-lme] Like our journalism? Become a subscriber: https://www.thenewsminute.com/subscription [https://www.thenewsminute.com/subscription] 👉🏽Follow Let Me Explain WhatsApp channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbDIedz2phHLQZTyNj1W [https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbDIedz2phHLQZTyNj1W] Produced by Megha Mukundan, script by Lakshmi Priya, Edit by Nikhil Sekhar ET, Camera by Ajay R ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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