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In Punjab, the NRI grooms are notorious for deserting wives in India. The people in Punjab are also obsessed about marrying NRIs and going abroad and for that they do whatever it takes to find and hook onto such a groom. Many times it doesn’t work out. Not only is the girl deserted, but the in-laws have extracted a heck of a lot of money as well from the bride’s family by then. This needs to be stopped. And now, after so many years the Punjab Government is proposing some measures.
15,000 women in the state have been deserted in the last two decades by husbands who live abroad. The government has proposed a new law that makes it compulsory for all marriages to be registered in court.
The proposal that will be introduced in the Punjab Assembly last week states that any Non-Resident Indian marrying a woman from Punjab will have to fill a special form when the marriage is registered. “All the information about the groom will be kept as a record with the local officials so that if there is some problem, we can contact the concerned person,” said Bikram Majithia, the minister in charge of all matters linked to Non-Resident Indians or NRIs. (Source)
There are somethings that every bride’s family needs to do:
Educate their daughters and make them financially independent. No woman should be at the mercy of someone else
Stop obsessing about going to “phoren”. It isn’t always worth it!
If you do marry your daughter to an NRI, know him well! No matter what he says or his family projects.
And, do register your marriage.
More than any regulation, this issue will be best tackled at the demand level itself.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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