We at the Centre for Women’s Studies in collaboration with
the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora and and the Ministry of
Overseas Indian Affairs, organized a One Day Debate on NRI Marriages on 6
October 2012.In just six months, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has
registered 350 complaints, that is almost two cases every day.
Expressing
concern over the rising incidence of fraudulent marriages of Indian girls with
non-resident Indian (NRI) men, a Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended
that the government enact a comprehensive legislation or suitably amend
existing laws for the protection of women against malicious NRI marriages. As
of now there is no clear cut policy to deal with this issue.A large number
of academicians, experts, students, NGO’s, and Lawyers came at one forum
to deliberate on this issue. 
To me violence is of various forms and the most overt forms of
violence is often explored- such as domestic violence, trafficking but we seem
to ignore the other kinds of structured
violence. A new form of violence against
women id the NRI marriages, where women
are dumped soon. Our social system, which seeks or aims only to dispose a girl,
through marriage. There is a proverb, ‘Bringing
up a girl is like watering a plant in the neighbour’s garden’. Therefore
families seek for getting their daughters married as soon as possible. Women
are not economically dependent, and hence when they get NRI grooms, families
gets excited. Feels like getting a jackpot in hand. They don’t look into the
realities of grooms- as in what they do, whatever they claim is that true and
other such important questions.
Eventually after marriage they abandoned them or even if they take them,
exploit them. Referred to as , Honeymoon’brides or Holiday brides, this is one
of the major issues in our country. 
