New Delhi: The central government has decided to increase the age of marriage of women and parliamentary committee had sought the opinion of the people on this.
However, about 95 per cent of the opinions have come to the committee through email in which this plan has been opposed by people.
According to sources in the committee, this could also be a conspiracy to deliberately stop this historic initiative.
In fact, as part of the plan to increase the age of marriage of girls from 18 to 21 years, the central government has given the responsibility of the survey to a committee. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by BJP MP Vinay Sahasrabudhe, has received nearly 95,000 views via email on the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2021.
Why the survey seems like a conspiracy to stop the bill?
Sources in the committee say that the way people have openly sent opinions is under lease of the government.
“We have received opinions from 95,000 people by email. Out of these, 90,000 emails have the same subject and looking at them, it looks like these mails have been prepared from the same source. It is feared that under this kind of planning, people are being given opinion against this bill so that it can be postponed,” said a senior government official.