Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said that modern Indian women want to stay single, are unwilling to give birth even after marriage and desire children by surrogacy. He criticized the western influence on Indian society, asserting Indian youngsters are no more interested in living with their parents in a joint family.
“Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single. Even if they get married, they don’t want to give birth. They want surrogacy. So there is a paradigm shift in our thinking, which is not good,” he said during the World Mental Health Day at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS).
“Unfortunately, today we are going in a western way. We don’t want our parents to live with us, forget about grandparents being with us,” the minister added.
“Stress management is an art. This art we need not learn as Indians. We need to preach to the world how to handle stress, because yoga, meditation and Pranayama are the wonderful tools which our ancestors had taught the world thousands of years back,” he said.
Sudhakar later thanked Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya for providing Karnataka 1.5 crore Covid-19 vaccines every month since September, leading to increased inoculation coverage in the state.
The minister also congratulated the Centre for administering 94 crore vaccines ever since the country undertook the task of vaccinating the entire population free of cost.
Congratulating the centre for the free vaccination drive in the country, Sudhakar said “We are the only country which is offering vaccines free of cost. Elsewhere, people are made to pay between ₹1,500 to ₹4,000 per vaccine.”
