Prime Minister, keep the age of marriage at 20
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14-year-old Ankita Rawal of Garhwa-6, Manikapur, Dang started writing a letter to the Prime Minister. The first time he wrote a letter to the executive head of the country, he felt scared at first. Even so, she completed the letter requesting that the age of marriage be fixed at 20 years. And sent a letter to the Prime Minister through post.
After the sub-committee formed by the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives began a debate on lowering the age of marriage from 20 to 18, Ankita, who is studying in class 9, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister. 15-year-old Paras Pariyar of Manikapur also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister.
8th grade student Paras wrote a letter outside the school for the first time. "Before I wrote a letter for school holidays but I never wrote outside," he said, "For the first time I had to write to the Prime Minister." They are confused about whether the Prime Minister saw the letter written by them or not.
Madhuvan Municipality-9, Bardiya, 19-year-old Mejakan Bantha also wrote a similar letter. 20 people wrote letters from his village alone. "The letter was sent to the Prime Minister, but I am wondering whether he has read it or not," she said, "I think he will definitely read it and address our demand." "The age of marriage should not be reduced because the marriage rate has increased, child marriage should be reduced," said 17-year-old Nandani Singh Thakuri of Banke, Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City-15, "If the age is reduced, the future of many girls like us will be in confusion." "In our community, it is customary to marry off our daughters before educating them. If the age is reduced, it will be more helpful,' she said, 'That is why we have sent a letter to the Prime Minister asking him not to lower the age.' They say that if the marriage age is reduced, the number of children who drop out of school will increase and this will ultimately weaken the economic condition of women.
Because the marriage age is 20 years, there are examples of teenagers from some communities who have been able to study graduation for the first time. One of them is Lakshmi Lodh of Suddhodhan Village-6, Guraulia Toll, Rupandehi. She is currently studying in BBS third year. There are 43 houses of Lodh community in his village.
She is the first teenager to study graduation in that village. "In our community, it is customary to get married after studying 8th/10th standard," she said, "I was able to study till graduation even though I was afraid of the law because the marriage age was set at 20 years. Otherwise, I would have been married.' She has also written a letter to the Prime Minister and requested to maintain the age of marriage at 20.
According to the National Census 2078, the most married people in Nepal are between the ages of 18 and 20. According to which, out of 71 lakh 16 thousand 659 teenagers in the age group of 18 to 20 years, 32.6 percent i.e. 23 lakh 18 thousand 6 people are married.
Similarly, 35.9 percent of the 8,966,211 teenage girls of this age group are married.
