A parliamentary standing committee will consider the issue of the age of marriage for men and women next week. The Standing Committee will discuss the matter on November 22. A committee meeting will be held on this day. A Marriage Unification Bill was introduced in the 17th Lok Sabha but it lapsed with the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was first introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2021. The bill was then sent to the Standing Committee. The committee was enlarged several times but the act lapsed with the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha.
In this meeting, the Committee will be attended by the Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD), representatives of the National Alliance (NCAAAC) and the Youth Voice Movement.
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The meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Digvijay Singh.
According to the agenda of the meeting, the Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by MP Digvijay Singh, will hold talks with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Central Adoption Resource Authority, National Commission for Women and National Commission for Child Rights. The Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development can. Apart from this, the committee will also discuss the functioning of various autonomous and statutory bodies with the Women and Child Development Minister.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 seeks to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 to increase the minimum age of marriage for girls to 21 years.
Parliamentary committee meeting will be held on November 21
The 2006 Act provides that a person married below the minimum age has the right to apply for an annulment before the age of 20 (i.e. within two years of coming of age). The bill calls for raising the age to 23, which is 5 years old.
The committee meeting will be held on November 21. The New Education Policy (NEP) group will also be discussed at the committee meeting. At this conference, the Secretary of the Ministry of Education and representatives of the School Teachers Association, the Department of School Education and Literacy and civil society organizations will talk about the impact of the New Economic Policy on school education.
The minister will also brief the panel on the functioning of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), various schemes like Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan and performance of autonomous bodies like NCERT, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) and various schemes implemented by the department.
