Recently I had gone
through a piece of news about child marriage that was posted in face book. I
was not startled. Because before also I heard lots of news like this. 40year
old marries 13 year old girl, 9 year old boy and 3 year old girl get married
etc. Such news is become common among the rural areas of India. Whenever I get
to know such things I only thinks why these happening in our so called educated
society? Why we are refusing the kid’s right for proper education and living
condition?
In 1978 the minimum age
for marriage in India has been fixed, 18 for a girl and 21 for boy. But across
the India the rule is violating. Such child brides lost their rights for
education and better living education. Child marriages are mainly occurs in
poor families. In many of the northern states dowry is given from boy’s side
instead of girl’s side. There is a common believe that grown up girls won’t get
suitable groom. Their poor living condition, believes forced them to commit
child marriages, lack of education is also one of the factor for child
marriage.
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Come to the news which
I had gone through is about a 13 year old girl wrote to her school principle to
request stop her marriage. The girl, named Duli Hembrom, is a Class 9 student
at Milan Mithi Uchha Vidyalaya in Gudabanda in the Jamshedpur district of Jharkhand.
She wrote this letter after failing to convince her parents to stop wedding. It
is clear from the letter that she is so much worried for her future education.
“I took an oath at the
time of admission that I will not get married before I turn 18. I do not wish
to get married early.” These are the disturbing words of a 13-year old girl in
a letter to her school principal.Education is a basic right of any child in
India if it is a girl or boy. Despite being illegal, child marriage is common
practice in many parts of rural India. Jharkhand, the state in which Hembrom
lives, is one of the worst affected by child marriage in India, with more than
40 percent of women married or in a union by the age of 18, according to UN
statistics. The most recent statistics show that only 11 people were convicted
for the offence in 2010.
Child brides are losing
a normal life. Such girls are becoming mother prematurely which causes lots of
health problems. Many of the child brides died due to pregnancy problems.
Beside these girls are treating so badly in their ‘sasural’. Several states of India
have introduced incentives to delay marriages. For example, the state of
Haryana introduced the so-called Apni Beti, Apna Dhan program in 1994, which
translates to “My daughter, my wealth”. It is a conditional cash transfer
programme dedicated to delaying young marriages by providing a government paid
bond in her name, payable to her parents, in the amount of INR25000 (US$400),
after her 18th birthday if she is not married.If we try together we can abolish
such atrocities from our land. Girls are not a curse they are boon, through
which India’s legacy will going on.
ATHULYA B S
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