Tulsi Prajna 1995 07

SR No.: 524584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 164
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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working male child is higher i.e. 30.34 and 36.87 percent in rural and urban India respectively. In Delhi slums, the girls are well aware of their career but they don't know how to achieve it. Even in the remote villages of U P. more than 30% of the girls respond positively and they want to become, nurse, school teacher, police-inspector etc. But there is a lack of infra-structure and no way to achieve it. Most of the schools have no playground, toilet, library etc. There is no high-school in nearby villages. They have to walk 3 to 4 k.m. if they want to continue their studies. This paradoxial situation forces them to discontinue the education and remain backward. This is the situation throughout in India. Marital Status
India has one of the lowest mean ages at marriage in the world. While many Indian states have registered an average increase of one year in the mean marriage age of females, far more Indian girls are still married before they are 16 rather than at the legally permissible age of 18. According to census figures about 44 percent of all Indian marriages are of girls between 15 to 18. Next of 4.5 million marriages in India, some three million take place before the girl is 19. Worst of all, about 8 percent of all marriages in the rural areas are of girls between 10 to 14 years of age. As a result 43 percent of all female deaths are of girls between 15 to 20. The reasons-pregnancy complications, abortion, death due to bleeding and anemia, also toximia and puerperal sepsis.
The area where I worked, the marriage age was near about 14 to 16 years in urban area and 12 to 14 years in rural areas. But there are some cases of girls married even before 10 years of age. Some girls are pregnant even before the age of 15 years. In one or two cases the girls have kids at the age of fifteen.
Now the question arises why the girls are married so early by the parents. The reasons for these early marriages for girl-child are also rooted in generations of cultural practice and attitude towards them. From the time she is born she is viewed as a liability, both moral and economic. The sooner she becomes the responsibility of another family, the better--a mouth less to feed. Health Status
Women anywhere in the world have to suffer from some inbuilt disadvantages, compared to men, because of certain biological reasons. They have to put up with menstruation, pregnancy, child birth, lactation, child rearing and menopause and their various complications. Physically, they are less strong. They are also more