New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday asserted that schooling is the perfect weapon to fight the social menace of kid marriage.
Launching the Rs 1,500 crore ‘Nijut Moina Scheme’ to offer monetary help to woman college students from greater secondary to post-graduate stage in authorities and aided establishments, the chief minister stated that the majority women drop out of faculties after class 10 and their dad and mom then marry them off.
The scheme has been launched to curb youngster marriage by rising the enrolment of woman college students in greater schooling.
The ‘Nijut Moina’ scheme is geared toward defending youngsters’s rights to schooling and well being, empowering women to make knowledgeable selections, delaying marriage until they achieve emotional, psychological and bodily maturity and lowering teenage motherhood incidences, Sarma stated.
”This isn’t a scheme to create beneficiaries however to make sure a long-term social impression,” he added.
Ladies from all households, no matter their financial situation, are eligible for this scheme.
Woman college students of Class 11 will obtain Rs 1,000 per thirty days, whereas these of their diploma first yr will get Rs 1,250 per thirty days and people in post-graduation and B.Ed will obtain Rs 2,500 per thirty days.
The scheme will cowl 10,000 college students who will get the quantity for 10 months and never throughout summer time trip within the months of June and July.
The scholars will get the advantages within the subsequent yr supplied they fulfill the mandatory proportion of attendance in school and usually are not concerned in any legal actions or ragging, amongst others.
Married women, besides in PG and B.Ed classes, and in-service B.Ed candidates, daughters of ministers, MPs and MLAs and people receiving scooters below the Banikanta Kakati Award, until they decide out of the scooter award, usually are not eligible below the scheme, Sarma stated.
The final date for submission of varieties is August 31 and the scheme can be applied from October 10.
”Our evaluation has proven that 80-85 per cent of the ladies research until class 10 however they drop out after that as many villages lack greater secondary colleges and so they should go to the closest city for additional research.
“This results in dislocation and better transportation prices whereas many dad and mom additionally face the problem of admission charges which the federal government has tried to unravel by introducing free admission,” Sarma stated.
On youngster marriage, he stated that the state authorities has taken steps corresponding to arrests below the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) however this isn’t sufficient as schooling is the important thing to test youngster marriages and teenage being pregnant.
Assam Police will launch one other drive in opposition to youngster marriage in November this yr however ”we’re positive that there is not going to be many arrests this time as in comparison with the primary drive in February 2023”.
A number of NGOs have carried out surveys on the impression of the drive in opposition to youngster marriage within the state and so they have identified that there was a decline on this social menace, Sarma added.
