malthusian doomsday reversal?

I was quietly reading the morning newspaper just before getting ready for work. Nothing unusual about that; it is fairly predictable;what else will a diehard chennaite do without the hindu newspaper.Some headlines excite me to read on further and atleast four or five stories make me want to read the entire stuff and actually ask for more, as they leave many questions unaswered.Well, they remain with me during the day and i try to find some answers by delving into the internet, bouncing the idea with some colleagues or family, but mostly i try to fill in the remaining jigsaw puzzle from 'own ' resources. Very, very few of them refuse to die down and remain with me for a long long time.
But nothing ever jolted me out of the 'oonjal' and log on to the net to reach out through my blog.Not in my recent memory at least.But this news item tucked away in a corner on the last page of the daily, says, tribals want their women to produce more babies as they are concerned about the dilution of their identity and dwindling population.Well, one reads up such news item of late, from various parts of the globe and also from governments in such cases.
But this one says the tribal community will give 20,000 rupees if a woman "produces" more than 20 babies!!!I am shocked and am not able to really express the shock and bewilderment.Are women machines and that too incentive for more than 20 babies;
Isnt it the worst form of degrading a woman's role in reproduction.
I wish the women of that tribe say "NO" to even the first child bearing; if the community still wants babies by the 'two dozens' let the entire operation be 'outsourced'!!
Tribalisation at its worst!!