Sikh Anand Marriage Act Implemented in HP and Orissa

NEW DELHI, India—The Delhi Gurdwara committee, DSGMC’s, General Secretary, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, shared that the state governments of Himachal Pradesh and Orissa have executed the Anand Marriage Act.

He said that the state governments of those states have become the fifth and sixth states, respectively, to have implemented the Anand Marriage Act. Before it, the Anand Marriage Act has been successfully administered in Punjab, Haryana, Jharkhand and Meghalya states of India.

In 2012, India had passed the Anand Marriage (Amendment) Bill, after which Sikhs are able to register their marriages under the Anand Marriage Act instead of the Hindu Marriage Act, with President Pratibha Patil giving her assent to a bill passed by Parliament on 7 June 2012 in the budget session.

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Sirsa has further informed that he was in touch with state governments of Himachal Pradesh & Orissa in this concern and now he has received official confirmation from these states about implementation of the Anand Marriage Act. He added that the legal process to implement this act in Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Assam was ongoing.

Sirsa further said that with the implementation of the act in these states Sikhs residing there can get their marriages registered under this act. He added that this will be especially helpful to those Sikhs who travel abroad as earlier they had to face a lot of problems because of non-registration of their marriages.

 

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