Proposal for pre-marriage counseling for {couples}: After plan cancelled, Goa minister to strategy CM with extra knowledge

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Goa Law Minister Nilesh Cabral’s plan to introduce obligatory pre-marriage counseling for {couples} registering for marriage was rejected even earlier than it took form, along with his personal occasion, the ruling BJP, among the many harshest critics of the concept was one in every of Cabral now plans to contact Chief Minister Pramod Sawant with extra knowledge to assist him rethink the proposal.

According to authorities knowledge, Goa’s registration division had acquired 423 purposes for annulment of marriages – a course of that was acquired between January 2020 and May 31, 2021, following a divorce decree or annulment of the wedding by a courtroom.

A complete of 11,052 marriages befell within the state throughout the identical interval.

Cabral pointed to the rising variety of divorces by proposing obligatory premarital counseling for {couples}. Three days after Cabral’s announcement on May 31, the BJP opposed the concept and requested Sawant to root it out.

Goa BJP President Sadanand Tanawade had mentioned, ‘What counselling is the federal government going to do? Your dad and mom and elders are the most important advisors.

“As per my knowledge 0.18 per cent people get divorced (in Goa). And it’s not like people get married today and get divorced tomorrow. Some get divorced after 25 years of marriage. It (compulsory pre-marriage counselling) will not make any difference,” he had mentioned.

Sawant had mentioned that the federal government was not inclined to contemplate the proposal as of now.

Cabral informed The Indian Express that he has mentioned with Sawant and the proposal has been turned down for now, however he’ll collect extra knowledge on the problem and submit it to the CM.

“We will not pursue it at this stage,” Cabral mentioned. I can not go in opposition to the choice of the Chief Minister. And as Law Minister I can solely suggest that, if the regulation is to be modified, it’ll nonetheless need to go earlier than the cupboard. We need to assume on this. I get extra stats..

“Even during the lockdown, when the courts were not fully functioning, there were over 400 applications for divorce. Some people don’t come for divorce or annulment, they come only when they want to remarry. That was the concern. There was no religious reason behind it,” he mentioned.

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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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