National Commission for Women launches awareness programmes on NRI marriages

The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday established a series of attention programmes on viable risks worried in NRI marriages. The ‘Awareness Programmes on NRI Marriages: Dos and Don’ts, A Way Forward’ is aimed at developing attention amongst victims around available preventive measures and criminal remedies.

“These programmes purpose to familiarise victims of NRI marriages of their rights, deliberate upon the challenges faced via aggrieved ladies in getting enormous remedy thru remedies reachable underneath Indian legal machine and to are seeking possible solutions to effectively minimize them,” the union ministry of women and toddler improvement said in a statement.

Last month, NCW held a multi-ministerial assembly to discover approaches to defend married ladies abandoned abroad. It was mentioned that a countrywide helpline number, training police officers in dealing with these cases and making ladies aware of their criminal rights are some ways the difficulty can be tackled.

The programmes have been held in four technical sessions, namely, role of judiciary in offering relief to female aggrieved in NRI marriages, position of police, function of legal equipment and sociological factors of NRI marriages.

NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma pointed out the importance of woman training and providing equal opportunities. “These attention programmes will be successful only if households and societies trade their mindset. It is our collective duty to uproot this evil. NCW is dedicated to elevating attention throughout the country and we request you to join palms with us,” Sharma added.

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