Law on NRI marriages by Nov: Girija Vyas

Chandigarh, June 21 (UNI) A comprehensive legislation to tackle the problems relating to NRI marriages is expected to be prepared by the month of November, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Girija Vyas said today.

Ms Vyas said the Commission was studying the problem of NRI men abandoning their Indian wives along with all other aspects of the issue and would come up with a report in this regard in two to three months.

''We will give our recommedations to the Central government by October so that a comprehensive and practicable act could be brought by the month of November,'' she said while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a workshop on ''Problems relating to NRI Marriages'' organised by the NCW and the Ministry of Overseas Indian affairs jointly.

To a question, she said the Commission was in favour of enforcing this law with retrospective effect so that those NRIs who had already spoiled the lives of thousands of innocent girls from India by abandoning them after marriage could be brought to book.

She said the Commission was working in tandem with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs and Ministry of Women and Child Welfare' besides several other related organisations, agencies, associations and NGOs in this regard.

The Commission, Ms Vyas said, would also recommend that those NRIs who would marry the Indian girls would be made to sign an affidavit declaring their antecendents.

Such marriages, she said, should be registered within a specified period of time which could be up to three months.

Also, a dual photograph of the NRI husband and his Indian wife be incorporated in his passport in order to curb the tendency to break the marriage to marry someone again, she added.

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