Centre constituted task force headed by Jaya Jaitly

Government has constituted a task force to examine issues related to age of motherhood, lowering Maternal Mortality Rate and improvement of nutritional levels. The task force will be headed by Jaya Jaitly and it will submit its report by 31st July of next month.

The task force will review the correlation of age of marriage and motherhood along with health, medical well being, and nutritional status of mother and child, during pregnancy & birth.

It will suggest measures to promote higher education among women.

The task force will also suggest suitable legislation and amendments in existing laws.

The committee has been asked to prepare a tailed roll-out plan with timelines to implement these recommendations.

The task force will submit the analysis report by 31 July.