Child Marriages Stopped | District Child Protection Unit stopped five child marriages
yavatmal, Child marriage is an undesirable practice and against child rights. Five child marriages have been stopped by the District Child Protection Unit under the Women and Child Development Department. Let us tell you that many child marriages take place on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya. The administration has taken this matter seriously and action is being taken to stop child marriage.
A child marriage was stopped in Arni on 25 May. Apart from this, the District Child Protection Cell Yavatmal and Washim team jointly succeeded in stopping the child marriage of two youths in Tendoli of Arni tehsil, one in Jamdoh and one in Pahur Naskri village with a 14-year-old girl of Aamkinhi in Washim district. Did.
In all these cases, the girls and their parents were produced before the Child Welfare Committee in Yavatmal and the parents were advised not to marry the girl until she turns 18 and the boy turns 21 and A written bond was taken.
The said action was taken under the guidance of District Women and Child Development Officer Prashant Thorat, District Probation Officer Gajanan Jumle, Probation Officer Ravindra Gajbhiye and District Child Protection Officer Devendra Rajurkar. Avinash Pisurde, Madhuri Pavde, Information Analyst Sunil Boxe, Akash Burewar, Falgun Palkar, Manish Shelke, Poonam Kinake were present during this action.
District and Child Development Officer Prashant Thorat has appealed to be alert for the prevention of child marriage and if you have any information about child marriage, you can contribute to prevent child marriage by calling the toll free number Child Helpline 1098.
Our organization along with Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation is taking every possible step along with running awareness campaigns to end this social evil. Child marriage is a big attack on human freedom, dignity, social morality, equality and inclusion. There is a need to amend the existing law to make the law against child marriage stricter and stronger. We request the government and all political parties to encourage the education of children, especially girls, by increasing the age limit for compulsory free education to 18 years along with amendment in the law. This will help a lot in preventing child marriage. By the year 2030, India has to be made a child marriage free country by completely eliminating child marriage from the society.
Akash Rambhau Burrewar (Mauli Multipurpose Institute, Ghatanji)