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Dec 17, 2021 · By amending the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA), 2006 and other personal law, the legal age of marriage of women will be raised rom 18 to 21 years. The decision is based on the recommendation of a four-member task force led by former Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitly.
The campaign provoked the 2012 Dharmapuri violence, where hundreds of Dalit houses were charred by arsonists. Ramadoss strongly campaigned for raising women's legal age of marriage to 21 as he believes upper caste women in their late teenage are easy targets for Dalit men.
Aug 17, 2020 · PMK founder S Ramadoss has been demanding an increase in the legal marriage age of women to 21. In a statement welcoming the Centre’s decision, Ramadoss said more than poverty, love and marriage...
Feb 15, 2022 · The amendment Bill states that the legal age for women to get married would be raised from 18 years to 21 years. The Bill, hence, proposes to bring women at par with men in terms of marriageable age. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, at least 1.5 million girls below the age of 18 get married each year in India.
The legal marriage age for women in India was first set to 14 years in 1929. It was defined in Child Marriage Restraint Act. The same act also set the legal marriage age for men to 18 years. Post Independence. After the independence, the law was amended twice i.e., in 1949 and 1978. Both the amendments have increased the marriage age for women.
Dec 16, 2021 · (File photo) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday (December 15) took the decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. The legal age of marriage for men is 21 years. With this decision, the government will be bringing the age of marriage for both men and women at par. Why is there a minimum age of marriage?
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Dec 17, 2021 · The rationale. The task force was set up by the WCD Ministry to re-examine age of marriage and its correlation to health and social indices such as infant mortality, maternal mortality, and nutrition levels among mothers and children.
