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Currently, the minimum age of marriage is 18 years for women and 21 for men

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government will soon take a decision on revising the minimum age of marriage for girls after it receives report from the committee set up for this.

The prime minister said the girls’ gross enrolment proportion in education has turned higher than that of boys without precedent for the nation on account of a few endeavors taken by the government over the most recent six years.

Modi was tending to a video gathering subsequent to delivering a memorial coin of Rs 75 section on the 75th commemoration of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

“There is a significant consultation proceeding to choose what ought to be the ideal period of marriage for girls,” Modi said.

The prime minister said he has been accepting letters from ladies from the nation over, getting some information about the report of the board of trustees, and when the government will make a choice on it.

“I need to guarantee them, the government will before long take its choice after the accommodation of the report,” Modi said.

In his Independence Day discourse, the prime minister had reported that the government was thinking about what ought to be the base period of marriage for ladies and has set up a panel to investigate the issue.

As of now, the base time of marriage is 18 years for ladies and 21 for men.

Modi featured the endeavors taken by his government over the most recent six years to battle against ailing health.

The prime minister said his government has adopted an incorporated and all-encompassing strategy to manage the test of unhealthiness.

The government has embraced a multi-dimensional procedure to take a shot at every one of those elements answerable for high hunger, he included.

The government has begun National Nutrition Mission, Modi educated.

Featuring different accomplishments, the prime minister said the government has fabricated 11 crore latrines the nation over under the Swachh Bharat Mission and has dispatched Jal Jeevan Mission to give funneled drinking water.

The government is additionally giving sterile cushions at Re 1 to helpless ladies, he further said.

“Due to these endeavors, unexpectedly, the gross enrolment proportion of girls in education is more than that of boys,” Modi said.

On hunger, the prime minister said the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has firmly followed India’s battle against this issue in past many years.

A few offices at various levels in the nation put forth attempts however the degree was either restricted or dispersed, he called attention to.

Modi said pregnancy at a youthful age, absence of education and mindfulness, insufficient accessibility of unadulterated drinking water, and absence of tidiness were a portion of the components because of which the ideal outcomes against unhealthiness couldn’t be accomplished before.

Modi said he had begun different projects to handle hunger in Gujarat when he was the central minister of the state.

In the wake of turning into the prime minister in 2014, Modi had said he has begun new projects with new and comprehensive methodology, in light of his experience as the main minister.

Modi supplemented the FAO for assuming a significant function in raising homestead creation and putting forth attempts towards destroying starvation and hunger over the world, remembering for India over the most recent 75 years.

The prime minister said the dedicatory coin of Rs 75 category has been delivered in acknowledgment of FAO’s commitment and administrations.

He likewise expressed gratitude toward the FAO for supporting India’s proposition to announce 2023 as the International Year of Millets and said this will help the accessibility of coarse grains and upgrade the salary of little and minimal ranchers.

The government, Modi stated, is putting forth attempts to expand the creation of millets and lift customer interest.

The prime minister additionally devoted to country 17 as of late created biofortified assortments of eight harvests. PTI