[Reader-list] Gujarat, AP top list of child marriages

[anupam chakravartty]

Why should NCRB be ashamed? why would describe NCRB to be pathetically
inadequate in collecting data about child marriages? Why should a
statistical bureau be answerable for a social stigma?

and what is so funny about it?


On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is one of the funniest News Items I have read in a long time.
>
> My 'curiosity was piqued' when I saw Gujarat and AP at top of the List instead of Rajasthan. Laughably, Rajasthan is not mentioned anywhere.
>
> National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) should be ashamed that it is issuing statistics that show only 104 cases of Child Marriage in India in 2008.
>
> Actually they are being honest since these are "REPORTED" cases.
>
> All the more a terrible shame for NCRB since it shows how pathetically inadequate their collection of data on 'crimes' is.
>
> Thanks to WIKI for this reality-check:
>
> """"""
> According to UNICEF’s “State of the World’s Children-2009” report, 47% of India's women aged 20–24 were married before the legal age of 18, with 56% in rural areas. http://www.unicef.org/sowc09/docs/SOWC09_Table_9.pdf
>
> The report also showed that 40% of the world's child marriages occur in India. http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/18/stories/2009011855981100.htm """"""""""
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
> --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Gujarat, AP top list of child marriages
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:18 PM
>
>
> Gujarat, AP top list of child marriages
> PTI, Mar 30, 2010, 12.47pm IST
>
> NEW DELHI: Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh have earned the dubious
> distinction of being at the top two spots in the list of child
> marriages in the country accounting for 40 per cent of such incidents
> in a single year.
>
> Even the national capital has recorded one such incident in the year
> 2008, according to the latest government data prepared by National
> Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
>
> This is only the second case reported from Delhi in this decade. It
> had recorded one such incident in 2003.
>
> A total of 104 cases of child marriage were reported across the
> country in 2008, which is an 8.3 per cent increase over the previous
> year's figure of 96.
>
> While 23 cases were reported from Gujarat, the NCRB report noted that
> Andhra Pradesh reported 19.
>
> In 2007, Andhra topped the list with 19 cases while Gujarat was at
> second spot with 14 cases.
>
> According to previous reports of the NCRB, Gujarat had found its place
> among states recording highest cases of child marriage every year this
> decade.
>
> Since 2001, Gujarat has recorded 164 cases of child marriages with the
> state recording the highest of 38 in the year 2002. It had reported 11
> cases the previous year.
>
> In 2003, Gujarat has 11 cases while it had 30 cases in 2004, 25 in
> 2005 and 12 cases in 2006.
>
> The other states which reported child marriage cases in 2008 are:
> Karnataka (9), Bihar (8), Punjab and West Bengal (6 each),
> Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra (5 each), Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
> (4 each), Rajasthan (3), Himachal and Madhya Pradesh (2 each) and
> Assam, Goa and Orissa (one each).
>
> Child marriage is prohibited in the country under Child Marriage
> Restraint Act of 1929.
>
> As per the Act, a child is a person who, if a male, has not completed
> 21 years of age and if a female, has not completed 18 years of age.
>
> According to the Act, for a child marriage, the parent or guardian
> concerned may be punished with a simple imprisonment which may extend
> to three months and a fine. Those who solemnise the wedding also face
> the same punishment.
>
> Similarly, a male above 18 years and below 21, entering into wedlock
> with a child, shall be punishable with simple imprisonment which may
> extend to 15 days or with fine which may extend to Rs 1,000 or both.
>
> A male above 21 years marrying a child shall be punishable with simple
> imprisonment which may extend to three months and shall also be liable
> to fine.
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Gujarat-AP-top-list-of-child-marriages/articleshow/5742216.cms
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