Participants will participate in TARANG and receive the following a total of 14 sessions:

1. Navigating newly formed relationships (e.g. spousal communication, healthy relationships with in-laws, establishing peer network, and negotiation skills)
2. Improving women's awareness of sexual reproductive health
3. Challenging inequitable gender norms to reduce unintended pregnancies.
4. Life skills education to enable them to have improved social mobility, decision-making, and agency.

The TARANG intervention will be delivered by Vikalp (a registered non-governmental organization implementing the intervention).

Participants in the control arm receive standard of care--contraceptive access through community health workers and routine counseling by community health workers

TARANG is aimed to empower young women to navigate newly formed relationships, improve women's awareness of sexual reproductive health, and challenge inequitable gender norms, with an aim to reduce unintended pregnancies and increase use of family planning. The TARANG intervention for newly married women will include 14 group sessions delivered by trained moderators from Vikalp. It will cover three overarching themes, including norms, empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.

Four light-touch sessions for mothers-in-law and one in-person session for husbands of newly married women will be conducted. For husbands, TARANG will include one 2-hour group session within the first month of the intervention, followed by regular and moderated content delivery via videos and take-home exercises over WhatsApp groups. Vikalp will conduct door-to-door listing, and a research team from NEERMAN will recruit households into the study depending on the eligibility criteria.

Data for analysis consist of time 'at risk' - active in the study and not known to be pregnant already - and the binary outcome of 'unintended' pregnancy. The binary outcome of pregnancy will be as per self-reported answers during Demographic Health Survey style monthly calendar on whether pregnant at any time during the month, and whether the pregnancy was planned / wanted. Since eligibility is based on participants stating that they wanted to wait at least a year to get pregnant, that it was "up to god" or they didn't know, the primary outcome will assume that all pregnancies were unintended. Additional sensitivity analyses will be done with a second definition of "unintended pregnancy" to accommodate intention to change over time, so only pregnancies where respondents said they wanted to delay in the prior round will be counted as unintended.

This will be calculated at the endline (18-months post survey) based on women's self-reported data through a detailed set of questions modeled on the Demographic Health Survey's contraceptive calendar question. For each month of the study/follow-up period, women will be asked whether they used any contraceptive method, and if yes, which type(s). A binary indicator of modern contraceptive use by month will be constructed. Modern contraceptive methods will include copper-T (intrauterine device), (Antara) injectable, emergency contraception, oral contraceptive pill, male and female condoms, male and female sterilization, lactational amenorrhea method, foam/jelly, diaphragm and standard-days method), as defined by the Demographic Health Survey in India. Person months during pregnancy and immediate postpartum will be censored for this analysis.

Continuous outcome. Stated pregnancy intention using an adapted Desire to Avoid Pregnancy (DAP) Scale. Self-assessed preferences for having a baby will be measured using the DAP Scale. The DAP scale is a 14-item measure of a person's preferences about a future pregnancy and childbearing. Each item is scored from 0-4, with higher scores indicating a greater preference to avoid pregnancy but investigators will use the 9-items on childbirth given the needs of the target population.