The number of divorce in Gulmi has reportedly increased as divorce cases are the most cases registered at the District Court Gulmi.
|
Local Level |
Fiscal Year |
Issue Number | |
| Resunga Municipality | 2021/2022 | 39 | |
| 2022/2023 | 52 | ||
| Musikot Municipality | 2021/2022 | 128 | |
| 2022/2023 | 51 | ||
| Kaligandaki Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 11 | |
| 2022/2023 | 23 | ||
| Satyawati Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 23 | |
| 2022/2023 | 20 | ||
| Chandrakot Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 11 | |
| 2022/2023 | 15 | ||
| Rurukshetra Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 21 | |
| 2022/2023 | 20 | ||
| Chhatrakot Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 66 | |
| 2022/2023 | 52 | ||
| Gulmidarbar Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 27 | |
| 2022/2023 | 36 | ||
| Dhurkot Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 10 | |
| 2022/2023 | 15 | ||
| Isma Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 16 | |
| 2022/2023 | 31 | ||
| Maalika Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 12 | |
| 2022/2023 | 23 | ||
| Madane Rural Municipality | 2021/2022 | 5 | |
| 2022/2023 |
21 |
Eight percent of the marriages that take place annually in Gulmi end up with divorce. According to the statistics published by the District Coordination Committee of Gulmi, around 8.19% of marriages ended in divorce. A total of 4,260 marriages were registered and 349 divorces were filed across 12 local levels in the financial year 2022/2023. Similarly, 7.87% of marriages ended in divorce, with 4,688 marriages registered and 369 divorces in the year 2021/2022.
As per the details provided at the local level of the district, in Resunga Municipality of Gulmi there were 39 divorce cases filed out of 440 marriages registered in the financial year 2021/2022. And in 2022/2023, there were 52 divorces out of 360 registered marriages.
According to Srijana Mishra, the information officer of District Coordination Committee Gulmi, there were 532 marriages registered with 128 divorces in the financial year 2021/2022. And for the year 2022/2023, there were 541 marriages registered with 51 divorce cases in Musikot Municipality.
Children and senior citizens are the ones who are most affected by divorce in a family. Children consequently have to compromise with their wellbeing and educational opportunities.
Ganesh Shripali, a Social leader and Advocate stated that the rise in divorces can be attributed to several factors, including foreign employment, increased social freedom, societal openness, modernization, and so on. He added that divorce has adversely affected the formation of family and further impacted the children, senior citizens, and the chronically ill.
Parbati Kunwar, Deputy Chief of Isma Rural Municipality and Coordinator of the Judicial Committee, said that the problems regarding family disputes still reported in the judicial committees of local levels. However, since the divorce cases do not fall within the jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee they initially try to reconcile the matter. And if there is no reconciliation, the cases are sent to the court. In a society where relationships are formed by choice, it is acceptable to legally get out of that relationship. Kunwar further stated that the judicial committee frequently receives complaints regarding broken relationships between husbands and wives. Even though it is affecting the society, nothing could yet be done because of the lack of a proper plan of the local government.