Maharashtra child rights body considers recommending mention of birthdate on wedding invitations

The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights is considering recommending to the State authorities that birthdates of bride and groom beryllium mentioned connected matrimony invitations to curb child marriages and teenage motherhood successful the State.

“We are readying to constitute to the Rajasthan government, which has a akin argumentation successful place. We volition survey the policy, existing laws, and past nonstop a connection to the Maharashtra government,” Pankaj Deore, Secretary of the Commission, told The Hindu on Wednesday.