girl child day is celebrated on 11 october in india.
girl child day is celebrated on 11 october in india.
when is girl child day celebrated in india?
11 october
until 2017, there was a discrepancy between two sub clauses of section 375. exception 2 stated that “sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape.” however, the same provision stated that a man is said to commit rape if he has sexual relations with a woman with or without her consent, when she is under 18 years of age. independent thought, a non-governmental organisation, in a petition in 2013, had challenged exception 2. in a landmark ruling on 11 october 2017, the supreme court upheld the age of consent as 18 years. the court held that the distinction made between a married girl child and an unmarried girl child was illogical and ran against the provisions of the protection of children from sexual offences act, 2012. such a distinction also violated a child's right to liberty and dignity under article 21 of the constitution. two other significant statutes undermined by the original ipc section were the prohibition of child marriage act, 2006 and the juvenile justice act, both of which define a child as someone below the age of 18. irrespective of her marital status, sex with a minor girl will now attract a minimum rigorous imprisonment of ten years.
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the national girl child day is celebrated in india every year on january 24. it was started by the ministry of women and child development and the government of india in 2008, with the purpose to spread awareness among people about all the inequalities girls face in the indian society. the day is celebrated by organizing various programs including awareness campaigns on save the girl child, child sex ratios, and creating a healthy and safe environment for a girl child.









































in 2019, it was celebrated with the theme of 'empowering girls for a brighter tomorrow'.









































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