The government has set a target of eliminating the practice of marrying off children under the age of 15 by 2021.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal unveiled the plan while placing the proposed budget for FY22 in the parliament on Thursday.

“We have planned to eliminate marriage of children under the age of 15 by 2021 and taken measures to make the less educated, poor and helpless women self-reliant by providing them with income generating training and IT training,” said the minister.

“Projects for the establishment of Community Nursing Degree College for Women in Dhaka, and the ‘Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs to Gain Economic Empowerment at the Grassroots Level’ are in progress. We will continue this pace of development by implementing all these activities and ensuring the prevention of violence against women, workplace safety for women and their overall socio-economic development,” he added.