The Parliamentary panel which will examine a bill seeking to raise the legal age of marriage of women from 18 to 21 and submit its recommendations has only one woman member.As per the Rajya Sabha website, the Parliamentary Standing Committee of .
The Parliamentary Standing Committee of Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports, headed by BJP s Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, has its full complement of 31 members and Trinamool Congress member of the upper house, Sushmita Dev is only woman among them.
The government introduced the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha during the winter session. Currently, the legal minimum age of marriage for men is 21 and 18 for women.
In a historic decision, the Union Cabinet passed a proposal to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years thereby bringing them at par with men. The decision was based on recommendations submitted to NITI Aayog last year by a task force constituted by the Central Government under the chairmanship…