Jharkhand information nation’s highest share of kid marriage amongst women

By PTI

RANCHI: Infamous for witchcraft killings, Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of getting the best share of underage women getting married, in response to the most recent demographic pattern survey by the Union Home Ministry.

The share of women getting married earlier than attaining majority is as excessive as 5.8 in Jharkhand, in response to the survey introduced out by the workplace of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs.

“The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years of age is 1.9 at the national level and varies from 0.0 in Kerala to 5.8 in Jharkhand,” the survey stated. 

In Jharkhand, little one marriages accounted for 7.3 per cent of marriages in rural areas and three per cent in city areas, it stated.

The Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report accommodates estimates of varied demographic, fertility and mortality indicators primarily based on the information collected by one of many largest demographic surveys on the planet protecting about 8.4 million pattern inhabitants.

The survey was carried out in 2020 and the report was revealed late final month.

Jharkhand and West Bengal are the one two states within the nation the place greater than half of the ladies are married earlier than attaining the age of 21 years.

The survey stated that whereas 54.9 per cent of women are married in West Bengal earlier than attaining the age of 21 years, the determine for Jharkhand is 54.6 per cent as towards the nationwide common of 29.5 per cent.

Meanwhile, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 32 individuals had been killed on allegations of practising witchcraft in Jharkhand in 2015, 27 in 2016, 19 in 2017, 18 in 2018, and 15 every in 2019 and 2020.

Jharkhand was within the limelight just lately after a minor woman was set ablaze for spurning the advances of a person.

The major accused had allegedly poured petrol on the woman from outdoors the window of her room when she was sleeping and set her on fireplace on August 23.

The teenager succumbed to her accidents 4 days later and the accused and the person who had equipped petrol to him had been arrested.

Another 14-year-old tribal woman, allegedly sexually exploited by a person on the pretext of marriage, was discovered hanging from a tree in Dumka on September 2.

Her mom had claimed that she was raped and killed and the accused has been arrested.

The two incidents are being probed by the National Commission for Women and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

A teenage woman fell sufferer to an acid assault and was despatched to AIIMS in New Delhi by the state authorities for higher therapy.

RANCHI: Infamous for witchcraft killings, Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of getting the best share of underage women getting married, in response to the most recent demographic pattern survey by the Union Home Ministry.

The share of women getting married earlier than attaining majority is as excessive as 5.8 in Jharkhand, in response to the survey introduced out by the workplace of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs.

“The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years of age is 1.9 at the national level and varies from 0.0 in Kerala to 5.8 in Jharkhand,” the survey stated. 

In Jharkhand, little one marriages accounted for 7.3 per cent of marriages in rural areas and three per cent in city areas, it stated.

The Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report accommodates estimates of varied demographic, fertility and mortality indicators primarily based on the information collected by one of many largest demographic surveys on the planet protecting about 8.4 million pattern inhabitants.

The survey was carried out in 2020 and the report was revealed late final month.

Jharkhand and West Bengal are the one two states within the nation the place greater than half of the ladies are married earlier than attaining the age of 21 years.

The survey stated that whereas 54.9 per cent of women are married in West Bengal earlier than attaining the age of 21 years, the determine for Jharkhand is 54.6 per cent as towards the nationwide common of 29.5 per cent.

Meanwhile, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 32 individuals had been killed on allegations of practising witchcraft in Jharkhand in 2015, 27 in 2016, 19 in 2017, 18 in 2018, and 15 every in 2019 and 2020.

Jharkhand was within the limelight just lately after a minor woman was set ablaze for spurning the advances of a person.

The major accused had allegedly poured petrol on the woman from outdoors the window of her room when she was sleeping and set her on fireplace on August 23.

The teenager succumbed to her accidents 4 days later and the accused and the person who had equipped petrol to him had been arrested.

Another 14-year-old tribal woman, allegedly sexually exploited by a person on the pretext of marriage, was discovered hanging from a tree in Dumka on September 2.

Her mom had claimed that she was raped and killed and the accused has been arrested.

The two incidents are being probed by the National Commission for Women and National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

A teenage woman fell sufferer to an acid assault and was despatched to AIIMS in New Delhi by the state authorities for higher therapy.