How to Remove Dowry System? Here Are 19 Common Tips, Ways, Methods Eradicate Dowry Problems in Nepal

This post is dedicated to Tips, Ways, Methods, and Steps related to How to Remove or Eradicate or Solve Dowry system problems. We all knew that the Dowry system is a type of practice of giving money, estate, property, gifts, or some special kinds of goods at the marriage of a daughter by the father to the bridegroom’s family.

The Dowry system is one of the great problems in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. The girls’ family gives money to the boys’ family and they will spend all the money for nothing. It is a financial burden carried by the head of the bride’s family. The Dowry system is spreading day by day very badly. Dowry deaths are occurring. Women are physically and mentally tortured by the bridegroom’s family. The Dowry system is social evil prevailing in Nepal.

Like all over the world, Dowry became prohibited by law in Nepal too. The anti-dowry law is sometimes and somewhere misused. Despite the anti-dowry law in Nepal, the dowry system is practiced widely and illegally across the country, especially southern part of Nepal called Madhesh or Terai.

Dowry disease is spreading more and more by the so-called educated and intellectual young guys. I think despite demanding dowry from the father-in-law, he has to come in front of society to denounce dowry to be an example. The most important role to eradicate the dowry system in our society is the parent role.

Many parents in our society are not sending girls to school and college to study because they think that she will need a more qualified man who demands more money. And it is happening in our society that educated man demands more than uneducated man. But thinking and doing this is a symbol of foolishness. It is short-sightedness. The Dowry system is social evil prevailing in Nepal.

The Dowry system is prevailing in Nepal as one of the burning diseases which mostly seems in the Terai or Madhesh region. It has made the stock the mind and thought of many people. There does not seem any marriage that does not include the role of dowry systems. In the Madhesh region, it has been working as a destruction face because of its negative impact on the bride’s family. Dowry is mostly taken for giving the best bridegroom to the family of the bride.

It is also in prevail that most of the rich bride’s family self-pay a huge amount on the behalf of their daughter’s happiness. The bride’s family thinks that my daughter will not have to face any kind of obstruction, or hazard. That is why also, there happens the role of finance transactions. Some also take the dowry as the selling of boys to girls’ families as it exposes the reality.

The dowry mostly prevails in the high-class family who have the job holder bridegroom and want to marry their below-level girls. At that time, the father of the bride pays a high amount to make them or convince them to marry his daughter.

Dowry in Nepal cannot be seen in the Himalayan region or the Pahadi community because of their thought. This is also a good region for giving value and equal respect and treatment to both bride and bridegroom. They take the marriage as the meeting of two hearts and are made by the god to spend life together not only for their entire life but for seven incarnations.

The reasons, causes, and solutions have also their role in its eradication and elimination. Many organizations have also worked in these sectors but have got nothing in their hands as result. Their laboring has gone useless because of no achievement. In Terai, dowry has become the bridge and ground for performing the marriage ceremony.

There even seems the mediator for making bargaining the amount for arranging the marriage. If the task gets matched and the amount gets accepted then only the works of further marriage are proceeding forward. Without a dowry, even the marriage also gets breaks before the marriage will arrange.

Sometimes, dowry plays a good role in making the marriage ceremony with such girls who are not getting a good bridegroom. In that case, the girls get a good bridegroom when their family pays a huge amount. according to the law of Nepal, it is a punishable offense. Although, it has not stopped practicing.

Dowry is prevailed and in use not with open bargaining but internally. Sometimes it also seems that there is done contract between only with bride’s father and the bridegroom’s father except for others. This is the secret crime that is prevailing under the eyes of government and law. This should be also stopped if the different programs are brought and strictly accessed by the ground-level person.

Dowry start to shrink if the following programs and matter should be provided and practiced clearly with positive intention. Nowadays, it is also decreasing level because of many programs and social understanding awareness has been reached to most of the eth people.

It is the responsibility and duty of the young generation to eradicate the problem of dowry. It is difficult to eradicate the dowry system not only in Nepal but also in other countries of the world.  There are ways, tips, methods, and steps of removing and eradicating the dowry system in our society. 

How to Remove, and Eradicate Dowry system Problems – Tips, Ways, Methods

Some ways, tips, methods, and steps of removing and eradicating dowry system problems are as follows:

Table of Contents

 

1. Awareness program campaign:

This is also the one of best solutions for dowry systems to avoid the prevailing. Awareness programs can be accomplished in several ways to affect and make understand the people mostly targeting the lower or ground-level people. Awareness programs can be done by spreading the message and making women active about these issues.

Awareness campaigners should be able to make the women or girls of the village understand and teach about the defect and bad consequences of the dowry system. There can be performed eth street dance to attract people m and make the crowd so that the message can spread as more as possible.

To eliminate the dowry system, awareness programs will play an effective role because of teaching and explaining the bad impact of it on society and the life of the bride’s family as well as the bride too.

Even the bride is dominated in their husband’s home if there still exists some amount that has not been paid after marriage. There are many defects and damage to it. Awareness programs should be also given mostly by the girls who have faced these problems to make the campaign more effective and girls more understanding. the matter should be clearly described and also given chance to ask frequent questions to clear their illusion and fear.

An awareness campaign can be done directly or indirectly without the access of people which will not make a positive impact. The campaign can be done by divulging through radio, television, newspapers, etc., which are indirect means of spreading the message. But when the group of campaigners moves to the village area and they are given the education and message of its all parts and facets, directly would make the high impact of eliminating it.

2. Punishable law:

The law of Nepal is flexible because of not is practiced strictly as we know that government has made a rule against the dowry system but not working strictly in this sector. Even the person who has contact with great leaders is freely getting rid of the police trap. government is not even working to eliminate it by punishing those who are involved in these activities.

Many marriages are completed by dowry but even in some marriages the administration or leaders become the face of the prominent guest.

When the government would not punish the family who tries to pay and take the dowry, it will spread its wings in large size. There is the provision of punishment for those who practice the dowry but it has been said and written in law only not on the real ground.

Law should be equal for every community and all should be treated equally in the eyes of law. The government should make a strict punishable law for its eradication that will also hurt the people and get scared from practicing it again. When a person gets struck with a stone makes the conscious of walking correctly. Many people practice arbitrarily without accepting the law.

3. EQUITY BEHAVIOUR:

It is seen that in the family also, there is no treating and practicing of equal behavior in daughter and son. There is also a problem which should be solved immediately as soon as possible. When parents get a son, they celebrate and recognize the function but when they get a daughter, they narrow their faces. This behavior and thought should be also destroyed and made extracted from the people’s minds.

The campaigners should also make them understand about the equal treatment of sons and daughters because both are part of building nations and moving the family descendant. Both help to make the parent proud of their work and now the girls are also no less than boys in achieving the great post by their capacity and ability. Son and daughter should be equally treated and loved by the parent. If all these concepts get dug into the person’s mind, the dowry system will self-eliminate.

4. Spreading education:

The government should also include a large description of the meaning, effects, and defects as a chapter in the school books’ content. The student should get the information and consequence of the dowry system.

If the reading and contents are taught in the school from the primary level, then the read children would not practice the dowry because they were familiar with its harmful effects. Education to both sons and daughters should be given. When girls become educated then they also become respectable people who will stand against dowry.

Girls and boys should get equal schools to study together and discuss this issue. It has touched the large society under their impact. Boys and girls should participate in education will surely decline its rates and effects society. As we know that present girls are future mothers and bridegrooms.

And it is saying then when the woman is educated it means the whole family is educated. Nowadays even it prevails that the bride who is literate tries to marry with literate girl without a dowry. So the dowry can be slowly eliminated also by a good education system. The school and colleges should be opened in every village that would make eth touched every poor to the medium family for education.

5. Reduction of poverty:

This is also a major problem that is increasing in its negative impact rapidly in some places. Many Nepalese are below the poverty line and they even hardly fulfill the needs of the family in surviving level. People who do not maintain their earnings to fulfilling their basic needs can how maintain the education of their children.

They cannot provide the children with education and also instruct them to work for maintaining the family’s needs. The government should provide education free to make them educated. Poverty is also the main problem which should be reduced to make the people stand. So that they can easily provide a better education to their children which impacts solving the problem of dowry gradually.

6. Employment opportunity:

Many of the people or brides even take the dowry to have the capital to do their private business or for opening any shop. Every girl and boy should get job opportunities for making the standard. When people do not get a job, then they have to fight poverty and problems in the family.

They even get difficult to solve all the problems of the family because of no cash in their hands. When all the people are employed, people will get a job and easily make their children educated with the best knowledge. Employment should be given according to the oddities of girls and boys for making the post more prestigious and valuable.

But in society, there is the practice of nepotism in many vacancy announcements which also makes the post degrade. employment also plays a role in the decline of its mark of existence in society.

7. student motivation:

A lazy man can also become active like a rabbit motivation. Motivation is such a rave which makes people courageous and dedicated towards their work for doing it positively intend. The student should be targeted mostly while motivating. Many students belong from the family where there is the practice of dowry.

If they are motivated by the motivation concept, then they also play their role to make always their parent from dowry. dowry cannot be eliminated by anyone saying. It would make society free from dowry serially because of their influence in society. The student is the future idols of the nations. The message should be spread initially at the learning phase which indicates to the students.

 8. Social torture:

Social torture has also affected the dowry system. Many people are habituated to this kind of activity and they also encourage others for having it. Taking dowry has also become the social rule for completing marriage happily. It also seems that when the bride’s father has not given the dowry then they are also dominated by the bridegroom’s side. To prevent this also, some amount of dowry is given as a blessing to the bridegroom. People from the side of the bridegroom make a jest and tease them because of not paying dowry. Social torture has also affected which should be avoided by the law and punished strictly.

9. Making women self-independent:

Most people do not let their wives do the job. They instruct them to cook food and do homo work. They are not permitted to do work outside because of their thought. This concept has also made great roots in society. Women should be also given the opportunity and permission to do their job.

If they become independent then they can easily handle the family and fulfill their needs. When girls do not need their husband’s earnings for spending their lives, it also becomes an obligation to the bride not to take the dowry and it will happen.

Boys also get a wife who is self-independent and can maintain the family needs with their earnings which will also make the pressure reduction of the husband. This types of thought and women’s independence are also major points that will help to solve the dowry system.

10. Gender equity:

Nepalese society is also suffered from gender inequality where the son and daughter are seen and treated with two different eyes and two different intentions. In many societies, it is also taken that the son is the forecasting of becoming rich and the daughter is the forecasting of making poor due to dowry donation.

Practicing inequity also has increased the dowry system. girls are not given the right to make them involved in all responsible work. Gender equity should also be practiced strictly by making the law for betterment, helping to decline the growth and impact of the dowry system.

11. Changing conception:

This will also be one of the solutions to change society through the transformation of concepts through people networks and social networks. Nowadays many platforms are available to share our views and conception.

Different drama and short videos can be installed on all the platform that helps to spread the message about it and aware and avoid its uses for conducting the marriage ceremony. The boy is also not the good that is sold in the subject of life partner and girls are brought by saying all these words.

12. Stoppage of early marriage:

There are also even now exist some communities and places where is practicing child marriage. According to the law of Nepal, the girls must be 20 and the boys 25 for marriage. It is not happening in real behavior. They do their children marry others with others in the intention of getting free from the pressure of marriage.

Marriage is also taken as one of the blunders things. Sometimes an even parent is not in the mood of doing a children’s marriage but due to getting the best proposal from the bridegroom parent side trolls their thought and does marriage even at an early age.

When girls are married at an early age, they are unknown of all the social problems cultural, and life obstacles to fight with them and live in a managed way. Early-age marriage also makes them independent and that is why they have to pay the dowry. Early marriage should be banned forcefully to avoid the use of dowry.

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13. Respecting them as a goddess in behavior:

This is also the major thing that should be improved and spread awareness in society. Many of the boys are using the girls as their pleasurable providers. The boys even show their vulgarity towards the girls because of their amiable and calm character. Girls should also be respected as a goddess. According to Hindu epic, girls have been given respect, and posts should be respected and treated as a goddess and ideal idols.

14. Equal rights:

In Nepalese society, girls and boys are not even treated equally due to their right determination. Girls have not been given equal rights as boys deserve. Girls are even treated as the second citizen and not people give priority in any program. When the government makes the provision of equal rights to every boy and girl, then the eyesight of people will change towards girls.

Equal rights also make the girls robust to claim and speak against the dowry strictly and openly. Presently, girls’ voices are pressurized by the threat of family or even social pressure. Girls feel scarce to share their crimes and activities that they had faced due to dowry. Girls should also give rights and their voice should also be noted in the government diary to solve the dowry systemrootly.

15. Employment and creating training providences:

Employment training should also play a crucial role to make women self-independent. Girls’ dependency on their husbands has increased the dowry rapidly. When girls become self-dependent, then she also raises their voice against the bridegroom about their capability and capacity.

She will not stay and spend their life under the earnings of their husband. Boys also do have not to take any kind of responsibility for maintaining the needs of the family because girls can maintain it by self-learning. It’s also the major solution point that will work for the eradication of the dowry system.

16. Reduction of mental torture:

When girls do not want to marry at childhood age, parent torture and behave brutally with them. She even becomes obliged to accept the critical situation and ruin their life. Parents do not think about their future consequences. They only think to send their daughter to another home by doing married.

Mental torture and pressure of giving them to marriage with parent-selected boys are also the major reason which has made the existence of dowry.

17. Intercast marriage :

Due to religious and cultural society thoughts exist in people, they do not let their daughter and son marry in another cast. When the boys or girls marry in the same case, they do not have an extra option to select the choosy boys or girls. When girls and boys marry by their own choice, then the dowry will self-extracted. Dowry is mostly practiced in caste marriage. This should also be made prevalent to make inter cast marriage without the deter of social intervention.

18. Stopping girls trafficking:

Girls’ trafficking also affects the dowry system. When there is fear of girl trafficking in the area, the daughter’s parent wants to marry their daughter as soon as possible. In that hasting situation, they pay the dowry for getting a good husband for their daughter.

Every parent wants to marry their children in a good and respectable as well as prestigious family. They also have fear of girls trafficking and that my daughter may be trapped by someone and trafficked. So to get rid of that scare also, they transfer the responsibility to other arms by marrying their daughter. Dowry is paid to the bridegroom’s parents.

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19. A society free of discrimination:

Society should also be free from discrimination and girls should be seen with the same eyes by giving equal respect and equal value. Both girls and boys are the two wheels of the same chariot.

In Conclusion

1. First of all, discriminating between a girl and a boy should be stopped.
2. Public awareness should be raised through different media.
3. Girls should be sent to school equally to boys. Give girls a chance for education and be patient.
4. Women should be given equal parental property rights
5. They should be given education and skill development training.
6. The Dowry system should be discouraged by the law.
7. The educated man has to show courage to stop this evil system of our society.
8. Society anyhow has to consider the fact that dowry is not beneficial for us. Our society’s role is most vital.
9. Don’t force girls to marry at an early age.
10. Girls also must have to show the entire courage to reject the boys who are demanding dowry.
11. When the girls are focused on quality education, the right training, got employment opportunities, and economic independence, girls can raise their hands against dowry.
12. All Girls in our society have to be confident that no girls are worse than boys.

But all these things can’t happen in a single day or overnight. It may take some time, the right planning, and lots of wealth. One day society will be changed and step to eradicate the dowry.

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