20% of Girls in Gujarat Are Married Before the Age of 18, NFHS Finds
The survey also found that underage marriage was more prevalent in rural areas and that 26.9% of girls and 33.9% of boys were getting married before the age of 18.
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Women15/Dec/2020
New Delhi: The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) has concluded that one in every five girls in Gujarat gets married before turning 18, which is the legal age for marriage.
Times in India, 5.2% of all married girls between the ages of 15 and 19 were mothers or pregnant at the time the survey was carried out.
62 GoI funded NGOs in J&K reluctant to share info on functioning, expenditure SWD asked to furnish details, file compliance report
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Dec 14: Sixty two Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory being funded substantially by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development under Social Welfare Schemes are showing reluctance in furnishing information about their working and expenditure under the Right To Information Act.
This has been viewed seriously by the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission Y K Sinha, who while issuing necessary directions to the Social Welfare Department of Jammu and Kashmir, has observed, “in spite of mounting pressure for more openness and transparency, it appears that a number of NGOs remain reluctant to share information and recognize the need for accountability”.