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Marriage of different communities to ensure a uniform marriage age. As of now, the legal age of marriage for women is 18 years while that for men is 21.
The decision comes a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government is considering what should be the minimum age for women to get married. The decision is based on the recommendation of a four-member task force headed by former Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitley.
However, experts have raised concerns about the bill. Amita Pitre, Lead Specialist, Gender Justice, Oxfam India, told PTI that the latest NFHS 5 report shows that the number of women married at an early age (before 18 years) has come down from 27 per cent in NFHS 4 to 23 per cent. .
“Yet, about 50 to 60 percent of marriages still take place before the age of 21. By raising the age of marriage to 21 years, all such marriages in future will come under the category of crime. The minimum age of marriage has been 18 years since 1978. Clearly, legislation alone has not succeeded in raising the age of marriage. In the upper and middle classes, girls get married beyond the age of 21 and this happens without the compulsion of the law,” he said.
The disadvantages of declaring the marriage of girls below the age of 21 as a crime are manifold, which are manifested even for girls below the age of 18 years, the official said.
Sheela C Veer, Senior Nutritionist and Director, Public Health Center for Nutrition and Development, New Delhi said that while reviewing the legal age of marriage for girls, it is important to take an anthropological view of the diverse practices existing across geographies.
A total of 113 countries accept India’s COVID vaccination certificates, some of which have apparently reached agreements with India for mutual recognition of certificates, while others have their own protocols that apply to all infected travellers, The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
In a written reply to a question in the Upper House, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the government attaches high priority to facilitating foreign travel of Indian nationals and added that the quarantine conditions as well as the entry conditions of other countries are barriers in this regard. as emerged. ,
A 30-member Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP PP Choudhary, presented its report in both the houses on Thursday. A parliamentary panel recommended stricter norms to regulate social media platforms by holding them accountable for the content they host, while stressing that India should store data and treat it as sensitive and critical personal data. It is mandatory to restrict access to it by classifying it as
It recommended widening the scope of the proposed data protection law to include both personal and non-personal data, with a “single governing and regulatory body”, and for social media platforms treating them as ‘publishers’ demanded more accountability.
However, the report did not recommend any major dilution of the controversial exemption clause, which gives the government the power to exclude any of its agencies from the purview of the data protection law.
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