Raising Legal Age Of Marriage

The Union Cabinet passed a proposal in December 2021 for increasing the legal marriage age for women from 18 years to 21 years. This decision is based on the recommendation of a committee constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development under the chairmanship of Jaya Jaitly.

• The committee was asked to study the correlation of age of marriage and motherhood with health, medical well-being and nutritional status of mother and child during pregnancy, birth and thereafter and key parameters like Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Total Fertility Rate (TFR), etc.
• Present Age of Marriage for Women: Under ....