New Delhi, March 7 -- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday highlighted demographic challenges in South India and outlined the state's new Population Management Policy aimed at addressing declining fertility rates at the Raisina Dialogue held in the national capital.

According to the Andhra Pradesh CMO, CM Naidu said, "Some countries are already facing an ageing problem. India still has the advantage of a demographic dividend, which will remain up to 2047. India's replacement fertility rate is 2.1, and currently it is around 2.2. But in South India, we are around 1.5 - far below the replacement level."

He added, "For the first time, a state government has introduced a population management policy. If a family has...