AHMEDABAD(INDIA), February 6,2012: Women deserted by their Non-Resident Indian (NRI) husbands overseas or soon after their marriage in India now need not feel helpless.Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has launched a booklet on the safeguards available to such women. The booklet, Marriages to Overseas Indians, contains details about the legal remedies available for such women and the authorities that can be approached for redress of grievances. An official Press release said a pamphlet entitled Thinking of the marriage of your daughter with an NRI? has also been brought out by the ministry highlighting the precautions to be taken before entering into such an alliance. A Gujarat University researcher told Khaleej Times that the fresh steps were the outcome of a detailed report submitted by the varsity to the ministry three years ago on the growing menace of fly-by-night grooms accounting for desertion of some 30,000 Indian women by their NRI husbands after pocketing fat dowries paid at weddings. The abandoned women hail mainly from Gujarat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala which send out a large number of migrants to the West. The National Commission for Women, the coordinating agency at the National level for dealing with the issues pertaining to NRI marriages, has also brought out a pamphlet entitled Problems Relating to NRI Marriages — Dos and Don’ts.
