CHILD MARRIAGE

        CHILD MARRIAGE

According to unicef 650 million women are  married before their 18th birthday and they are alive today.globally, 12million girl kids are force to marry every years. The girls age was 15 years and they are forced to  marry and from it 27% of women had experienced at least one form of intimate partner violence in last 12 months, while 25% indicated experiencing in their life time.

Child marriage is still a prevalent practice. So far , we can't seem to overcome the dark reality of society. Marriage is an institution in which two mature person agree to live with each other by sharing their love and responsibility equally.but, child marriage is totally opposite of it. Child marriage is an accepted social practice prevalent in almost all part of country.

*HISTORY REFERENCE OF CHILD MARRIAGE

The origin of the practice of child marriage is not known, though it is believed to have been commonly practised across the world before the 19th century. Girls, as soon as they attained poverty were required to be married off. This finds a reference in the Dharamsatra as well. Additionally, there is a mention in Manusmriti that it is an offence on part of the parents to marry off a girl before she has attained puberty or if it has been more than three years after she has attained puberty. Similarly, a boy is required to be married off before he attained the age of 16 years.


*ASSOCIATION OF DOWRY WITH CHILD MARRIAGE

The offering of gifts and wealth to the groom’s family by the bride’s family is called dowry. It has long been associated with child marriage in Nepal. A common practice across all religions in Nepal , it is often correlated to the age of the bride. In other words, more the age of the bride, more the demand of the dowry will be. This fear of more dowry has led to more prevalence of child marriage in Nepal.Additionally, poverty has also been a major factor driving people towards child marriage.

*EFFECT OF CHILD MARRIAGE:

1. During child marriage the immature girl kid needs to leave her home forcefully and have to live in a new home with lots of responsibilities. At such a small age, the girl who is not mentally mature has to take the huge responsibilities of the home.

2. Childhood gets vanished at the time of child marriage  In fact, the independence of playing and learning is also stolen in the practice.

3.There are extreme risk aspects that are associated with child marriage, such as, getting STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) like HIV. Girl child does not have much knowledge about pregnancy and babies of these small girls are more probable to health issues like low birth weights malnutrition, etc.

*AWARENESS

1.Children have to be taught regarding their civil rights. They should know that when to decline and protest against the forceful child marriage.

2. Media can also play an important role in making people aware of child marriage in . They can telecast some television programs or shows about this monstrous ritual which can create a massive change in the attitude of the people.

3. There should be strict laws and legal provision against the child marriage in nepal that can stop this evil from occurring. People indulging in such marriages should be punished reasonably by the law.

4.Government organizations and NGOs should work together to decelerate the practice of child marriage in Nepal.

*CHILD MARRIAGE LAWS IN NEPAL.

Child marriage is illegal in Nepal since 1965. The current law sets the minimum age of marriage at 20 for both men and women. Forcely arranging child marriage is punishable by imprisonment  and fines .
In Province no 2 government conduct such  programs as "beti bachau,beti padhau "(BBBP), which translates to "save daughter,teach daughter" focus on delaying the child marriage in Nepal. Bal bibah is one of the most watched melo-drama, show cased how child marriage are a bane to human race and the country.

*CONCLUSION
Marriage is a sacred union between two mature individuals who are in consensus with each other to share responsibilities and take care of each other for a lifetime. Child Marriages happen to be an illogical institution that has prevailed in the country, despite all the development and growth that the country has witnessed over the time.

LOCKDOWN

                             LOCKDOWN

In Nepal lockdown is started from 23march for 1 week due to epidemic of COVID_19 this virus is very danger for human being because most people infected with the COVID_19 and this is communicable disease .and for controlling it government should extended  lockdown for 15 April .

My lockdown experience so far has been the same as any vacation, staying in home and  engaged on my phone and laptop all day and  everyday. I am spending this time With my family 1st first few days were normal; all for of us would cuddle up in one bed with the TV running. However, it did not take us very long to realize that we would not get past the lockdown in this manner and, we came up with a routine. So, in a nutshell, things are going great but I am really looking forward to remembering these days in the future. This days is very useful in future I want to utilize this special time to acquire some extra knowledge which helps me in future .

VIVAH PANCHAMI

                    Vivah panchami

 Vivah panchami is the reminisce of weddings of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita. Vivah Panchmi is celebrated on the fifth day of Sukla Paksha on the month of “Mangsir”. This day is considered as the auspicious day for the Hindu, residing in the Mithila region of Nepal and India, and celebrated as the wedding ceremony of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita. Vivah panchami is observed in Janakpur every year to mark the occasion. This festival ties the people of Nepal and India with a single thread. Janakpur and Ayodhya cities are an inseparable link to this glorious story.


King Janak, the father of Goddess Sita, purposed the special examination to qualify for the marriage of his daughter Goddess Sita. His proposal was that Sita will marry that man, who will able to break the sacred bow. For this, King Janak organized the “Sita ka swayamber” and he invited almost all the potential king and princes of the different kingdom. Among, all the participants, Lord Rama and Lord Ravan, the king of Lankha were the center of attraction. Almost, all the participants except lord Rama and Ravan, failed to carry the bow even they failed to lift it. Ravan tried his best but he also failed to carry the bow. It was Lord Rama, who successfully carried the bow and even broken the bow into three-piece and qualified the proposal of King Janak. After this, the marriage of Goddess Sita commenced with Lord Rama, and for the reminisce of the same scared date, the vivah panchmi is celebrating.

Vivah Panchami is also seen as a strong tradition, the religious and cultural bond between Nepal and India. For the celebration of this auspicious day, thousands of people and devotees come to Janakpurdham from all over the world, though most of them are from Nepal and India. As inception, how the conjugal tie happened between the lord Rama and goddess Sita, the same scared function and procedure are followed now in the vivha Panchami to reminisce the wedding. The Procession (Barati) use to come from the Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Rama, to the Janakpurdham to attend the marriage ceremony with lots of offering as originally it happened. For the weeklong, vivha Panchami is celebrated in which various rituals of Rama-Sita marriages are performed enthusiastically with scared and religious fervor. vibha Panchami is celebrated by the devotees to immortalize the conjugal ceremony of Lord Rama and goddess Sita. The devotee's participant on all ritual enthusiastically. During Vivah panchi, the most waited ceremony is, “Dhanush Yagya-the bow breaking ceremony”, which use to organized at the “Baraheega Maidan” of Janakpurdham, and the “swaymbar” and other marriage functions, use to organize in the ground of Janaki temple.

 During the Vivah Panchi, Janaki temple is decorated as the bride with the lamps, electrical light, and flowers. In this date, only the idol of Goddess and Lord Rama, bring outside the temple and decorated with the new clothes and jewelry as the bride and groom. To make the festival more meta event, lots of cultural programs use to organize and even the Ramleela performance performed which epitomes how the scared wedding ceremony of Goddess Sita and Lord Rama performed.  This year, Vibha panchami is celebrating on December 1st and to celebrate this auspicious festival, all the stockholder initiated preparation and anyone can infer the ambit of Vivha panchmi from now in the Janakpurdham.