The Mait Shaphrang Movement (MSM) has urged the State government to define the term “official purposes” in the Meghalaya Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act, 2012.
In a recent letter to the Minister of Registration, the MSM said that the proposal of the State government to delete the term “official purposes” from the act will dilute the very objective of the act for which it was unanimously passed by the Assembly.
“We sincerely urge the government that instead of deleting the term ‘official purposes’ it should define the term and enlarge its scope of implementation so that the purpose of the act is served,” MSM convener Michael N. Syiem said in the letter to the minister.
Syiem also said that the government should make the marriage registration act effective in order to provide a solution to the problem of abandonment of women with children in the society.
