{"id":30883,"date":"2018-10-27T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30883"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:47:35","slug":"plea-to-raise-minimum-age-for-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-to-raise-minimum-age-for-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea to raise minimum age for marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/plea-to-raise-minimum-age-for-marriage\/article22914050.ece\"><b>Plea to raise minimum age for marriage<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A petition to raise the minimum age for marriage has been filed in the Supreme Court<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Details<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to petitioner advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay \u201cfertility depends on the age of marriage\u2019\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, it is necessary to raise the minimum age for marriage for men and women to 25 years and 21 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current minimum age for marriage for male and females is 21 years and 18 years respectively<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plea said the state had failed to implement effective population control strategy or programme to ensure the well-being of citizens, which was under peril due to the rampant rise in population.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plea is likely to be listed before a Bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea to raise minimum age for marriage Context: A petition to raise the minimum age for marriage has been filed in the Supreme Court Details According to petitioner advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay \u201cfertility depends on the age of marriage\u2019\u2019. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the minimum age for marriage for men and women to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plea-to-raise-minimum-age-for-marriage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plea to raise minimum age for marriage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895913},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}