Why it is in news?
- The chief of an autonomous council in Meghalaya has justified a controversial bill to prevent women of the Khasi tribe from marrying non-Khasis, insisting it could protect them from deadly diseases such as HIV-AIDS transmitted through marriage with outsiders.
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The Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council (KHADC) had on July 2
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5 passed the Khasi Hills Autonomous District (Khasi Social Custom of Lineage) (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018.
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It prescribes stripping a Khasi woman who marries a non-Khasi of her Scheduled Tribe status, and categorising children born out of such marriages as non-Khasis.
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The amendment Bill is aimed at protecting the community from imminent threat of deadly diseases such as HIV-AIDS that come through marriage with bus and truck drivers from outside the State and migrant workers, besides drug addicts
Source
The Hindu