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Table of Contents:
GS Paper 2:
- Increase in the minimum age of marriage for women to 21 years two years after Bill is notified: Centre
- US Senate resolution for underlining backing India on McMahon Line: What is the McMahon Line?
- India-US Economic Relations
GS Paper 3:
- What are ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ banks, and what makes Indian banks safe?
- Why do landfills catch fire and what can we do about them?
Content for Mains Enrichment (CME)
- Feminist foreign policy movement
Facts for Prelims (F
GS Paper 2
Syllabus: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation
Source: TH
Context: The increase in the minimum age of marriage for women to 21 years as provisioned in the Prohibition of Child Marriage Amendment Bill, 2021, would come into effect two years after the Bill is notified following its passage in Parliament.
Background:
- According to the NFHS-5, 23% (47% in NFHS-3 and 27% in NFHS-4 ) of women between the age of 20 and 24 were married before 18 years of age.
- In India, the practice of child marriage was first legally prohibited through the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 (legal age G = 14 years and B = 18 years)
- This Act was amended in 1978 to increase the minimum age to 18 years for females, and 21 years for men.
- The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 replaced the 1929 Act, with the same minimum age limits.
- In 2020, the central government set up a task force (Chairperson: Ms Jaya Jaitly) to examine the correlation between the age of marriage and the mother, and the child’s health.
- The Committee suggested increasing the age of marriage for females to 21.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Amendment Bill 2021: The Bill, introduced by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and currently with the Parliamentary Standing Committee, amends the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006.