Marriage Bill India: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports which was to submit its report in the last Monsoon Session could not do so because the Committee did not have a Chairman after Vinay Sahasrabuddhe s retirement.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has granted another extension to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports examining the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021, which proposes to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21.