TMC MP Sushmita Dev, the lone lady member of the parliamentary panel tasked with analyzing the invoice, which proposes to boost the marriageable age for girls from 18 to 21, has demanded {that a} assembly of the Lok Sabha and the state to be opened to all ladies MPs. Meeting.
Dev is the one lady MP within the 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by BJP MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, to look at a invoice launched within the Lok Sabha through the winter session of Parliament.
Dev wrote to Sahasrabuddhe on Monday requesting that the committee conferences on the difficulty of the invoice be opened to all ladies MPs. He mentioned that process and conduct of enterprise within the Rajya Sabha (Rajya Sabha) might be finished beneath guidelines 84(3) and 275 of the Rules.
“I would like to propose that any woman member of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha be given the right to testify in writing or in person before the committee on this issue,” Dev wrote. There are 81 and 29 ladies MPs in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively. “I am sure all my honorable female colleagues will have a lot to contribute to the discussion on this issue,” she mentioned.
On Monday, Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi additionally wrote to Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, pushing for higher illustration and participation of girls within the dialogue on the invoice. “It is of utmost importance that the interests of all stakeholders are kept in mind and the voice of all, especially women, is heard and understood by the committee,” she wrote.
Chaturvedi mentioned it was “disappointing to note that a bill relating to women and Indian society would be deliberated upon in a committee where representation is highly skewed”. The Ministry of Women and Child Development is administering the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
