Girl's marriage age in India

 Girl's marriage age should be 21 years, 16 years or 18 years??

Laws are restrictions for some time then they become beliefs.                                                                            -APSirvaiya 

You have to be fair before knowing the answer to this question. 

The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5 2019–21) has brought out the dismal fact that Even 40 years after marriage age was raised from 16 to 18. We still have an alarming rate of child marriages at 23%.  In Year 1978 popularly known as the Sharda Act passed by government, extend the age of marriage for Girl's 18 year and for boy's 21 year.

Please do not compare the age of marriage with age of vote or work because they are extremely separate from each other. 

See The problem is not about the age of marriage of girl's it's all about the equality of girl's and boy's. Some people said that a person can elect a MLA, PM why not life partner at the age of 18. We have to ask them Is there only girl's who electing MLA, PM at age of 18?? Why boy's marriage age is 21 while they are electing MLA, PM at same age of 18. The sex discrimination is in our society mind. 

I don't know what is right, what is wrong but please answer my question How many 12th pass out student is matured enough to make there decision to choose a right person for become there life partner?? 

Why your sister, your mother should not house wife? They are getting married at 18 year age which is approx 12th pass out, how many jobs are available in present time for 12 pass out girl's students except to have children. 

Yes surely we get emotional in name of sister or mother, but we don't want this feeling for our wife's, sister in law, daughter in law. Because equality is not in our blood 

Why should not girl's marriage decrease to 16 year in present time? I think you got it why it sound like rubbish because at that time we are accepting, this is small age for getting married because previous time people just think that this is just for benifit of girl's health only to have children but now the time changed. Girls need equality not for health purposes only but also for opportunities, there dreams, there study, for maturity and mostly to have children at right age . And I think this is her basic rights. 

No matter how good you are, when society is born with wrong thinking, then your honesty is also useless. 

                                                              - APSirvaiya 

AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN ENACTMENTS :-

THE PROHIBITION OF CHILD MARRIAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2021

Short title and commencement

Amendment of section 1

Amendment of section 2

Amendment of section 3

Insertion of new section 14A. Act to have

overriding effect.

The Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872

In section 60, for clause (1), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

(1) the age of the man and woman

intending to be married shall not be under

twenty-one years;

The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936

(a) in section 3, in sub-section (1), in

 clause(c), for the words "female, has not

completed eighteen years of age", the words "female, has not completed twenty-one years of age" shall be substituted;

(b) in Schedule II, the expression "Signatures of the fathers or guardians of the contracting

parties under 21 years of age" shall be omitted.

The Special Marriage Act, 1954

 In section 4, in clause (c), for the words "eighteen years", the words "twenty-one years" shall be substituted.

The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

 (a) in section 5, in clause (iii), for the words "eighteen years", the words "twenty-one years" shall be substituted;

(b) in section 13, in sub-section (2), in clause (iv), for the words "eighteen years", the words "twenty-one years" shall be substituted.

The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956

 (i) in section 6,—

          (I) in clause (a), for the words “a boy or an unmarried girl”, the words “a legitimate boy or a legitimate girl” shall be substituted

          (II) in clause (b), for the words “an illegitimate boy or an illegitimate unmarried girl”, the words “an illegitimate boy or an illegitimate girl” shall be substituted;

          (III) clause (c) shall be omitted;

(ii) in section 9, sub-section (6) shall be

omitted.

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

 In sections 7 and 8, for the words “not a minor”, the words “not below the age of twenty-one years” shall respectively be substituted.

The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 

 In section 4, in clause (c), for the words "eighteen years", the words "twenty-one years" shall be substituted.