Lumbini Provincial Assembly member Indra Gahatraj said that the cash award was given to raise awareness about reducing child marriage and to attract women to education.
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In Nisdi Rural Municipality of Palpa, which has set a goal of ending child marriage in the current fiscal year, 27 women who have passed grade 12 and reached the age of 20 and got married have been honored with cash prizes.
Women who have passed grade 12 and are permanently residing in Nisdi Rural Municipality from 1st July 2081 to 31st Baisakh 2082 and have reached the age of 20 have been given incentive prizes. At a program organized by the rural municipality on the occasion of the 8th National Women's Rights Day, women representing all seven wards were given Rs 5,000 in cash, a certificate of appreciation along with a dosalla as an incentive. The honorees were asked to submit their citizenship certificate, educational certificate of passing grade 12, and a copy of their marriage registration certificate through the ward office.
Lumbini Provincial Assembly member Indra Gahatraj said that the cash prizes were awarded to raise awareness about reducing child marriage and to attract women to education. She said that such activities would be more effective if women could be connected to enterprises. In Nisdi Rural Municipality, where 276 couples had been married as of 2079 BS, the number has been reduced to seven couples in the current fiscal year, said the Vice-Chairperson of the Rural Municipality, Tiran Kumari Shrestha. She said that the municipality has returned the houses of seven couples saying that they had married before reaching the age limit.
Chief Administrative Officer Purna Bahadur Chitaure said that Nisdi Rural Municipality has been conducting various programs to declare it a child-friendly rural municipality. The rural municipality had issued a notice a month ago to honor such women and invited applications through the ward. On the occasion of Rights Day, those who scored the best marks in the basic level, SEE, and grade 12 from Nisdi Rural Municipality have also been honored with cash, dosalla, and certificates.
Similarly, a woman from the municipality who passed the master's level last year has also been honored with cash. Similarly, the Galdha Social Entrepreneur Women's Cooperative, which registered a cooperative within Nisdi Rural Municipality and successfully sent ginger and beans to the international market for enterprise development, was also honored with cash, said Kusmakhar Pandey, Head of the Women's Development Branch and Child Rights Officer.
Child-Friendly Focal Person Kusmakhar Pandey said that the program will help motivate women to pursue higher education and raise awareness about reducing child marriage. "Such programs have helped reduce the rate of child marriage," he said. Spokesperson Mekh Bahadur Sunari said that the municipality believes that the incentive award will help reduce child marriage and motivate women towards education to run a campaign for declaring a child-friendly municipality.
He said that the rural municipality has previously awarded and honored women who have completed their master's degree to attract women to higher education. Pushpa Saru, chairperson of the Nisdi Women's Coordination Committee, executive members Hem Kumari Sunari, Mim Shree Byambu, Khumisara Pulami, and Nirmala Bakawal of the Women's Coordination Committee said that child marriage is being reduced through programs targeting women and children and that preparations are being made to declare the municipality a child-friendly municipality in the current fiscal year.
