Sunita Laxman Jadhav is an Indian auxiliary nurse with an unusual job - she goes door to door selling what she calls the Satara district government's "honeymoon package" which pays couples just over $100 if they wait two years before having children.
India has a rapidly growing population which, according to this article in the New York Times, threatens to become a crippling burden.
With almost 1.2 billion people, the country is disproportionately young (about half the population is under 25) and although that may be to its advantage now, the sheer scale of the numbers puts pressure on resources. It also presents an enormous challenge to an already inefficient government to expand schools and other services.
And although India is projected to become the world's most populous nation in the next decade or so, its approach to birth control is not well coordinated, with some national politicians wary of promoting the issue at all with voters for fear of a backlash.
Thanks to Terry Reis Kennedy for this story.
