The state government has framed Child Marriage Prohibition Rules 2010 under the provisions of Child Marriage Prohibition Act 2006 to ban marriage of girl child below the age of 18 years.
Social welfare minister Parveen Amanullah said this while giving a reply to the short notice question of Binod Narayan Jha of the BJP in the assembly, who queried whether 69% girl child below 18 years of age were married in Bihar? Amanullah replied that the National Family Health Survey-3 had reported that in 2005-2006, at least 69% of the married women were married below the age of 18 years.
Keeping this in view, the state government had launched a scheme to encourage the girl child to get empowered first at schools by providing them bicycles and uniforms under the CM's bicycle scheme and CM Balika Poshak Yojana. The government announced 'Kanya Vivah Yojana' to give Rs 5,000 for the marriage of every girl attaining adulthood at the age of 18 years, whose parent's annual income is Rs 60,000 or below.
Amanullah added that the Bihar Women Development Corporation, with the aid of UNICEF launched a pilot scheme, `Bhagidari', in 20 blocks of Gaya, Nawada and Vaishali districts for creating awareness with the help of self-help groups and block-level organisations against child marriage. She said that under the provision of Child Marriage Prohibition Act, the subdivisional officer would act as child marriage prohibition officer who would participate in capacity development programme along with other district and block level officials and police officials for enforcing the Child Marriage Prohibition Act.
She said that the helpline running under the Nari Shakti Yojana will register cases under Child Marriage Prohibition Act on complaints made by the victims subjected to child marriage. The affected women would also be provided counselling, she said.
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