HUMILIATION OF WIVES OF NRI HUSBANDS
New Delhi, Feb. 22, 2006
Rajya Sabha
The Government is taking measures to educate parents
as well as prospective brides and to create awareness
on the issue of protecting the interests of wives
who have been deserted or being humiliated by their
NRI husbands. The measures include publishing a guidance
booklet on marriages to overseas Indians. The other
measures under consideration are establishing overseas
Indian centres in select locations with high overseas
Indian population, setting up a gender advisory group
to advise on gender issues related to the diaspora
and support helplines to assist those in need.
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs had invited
suggestions from the states in which this problem
is acute for improving the guidance booklet. A national
consultation was also held on 18th February, 2006
to which states in which the problem is acute were
invited and their views on the issues were noted,
he added.
This information was given by the Minister of Overseas
Indian Affairs, Shri Vayalar Ravi in the Rajya Sabha
today in reply to a question by Shri Ravula Chandra
Sekar Reddy.
