Child marriage evil still prevalent in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Child marriage evil still prevalent in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district

New Indian Express  

GUNTUR: Despite growing awareness, child marriages continue in Guntur district, with officials attributing the practice to various socio-economic factors. According to the National Family and Health Survey-5, the erstwhile Guntur district ranks fourth in the State for child marriages, with a rate of 35.4%. The Women and Child Welfare Department identified key causes, including poverty, parental insecurity, school dropouts, traditional customs, community marriages, and migration from other States. During a district coordination committee meeting, Guntur Collector S Nagalakshmi directed ICDS to involve government school teachers, Anganwadi workers, ANMs, and Mahila Samrakshana Karyadarshis at village and ward secretariats to identify at-risk children and prevent child marriages.

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Over 3K child marriage complaints in TN last year; 1,995 were stopped
1 month ago

Over 3K child marriage complaints in TN last year; 1,995 were stopped

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu received a total of 3,049 child marriage complaints in 2023, with an average of nearly eight cases being reported to social welfare department on a daily basis. Dindigul district led the state in the number of complaints received, while Namakkal recorded the highest number of child marriages conducted. Western districts occupied at least three spots in the …

Supreme Court's Judgment on Child Marriage: A Violation of Fundamental Constitutional Rights
2 months ago

Supreme Court's Judgment on Child Marriage: A Violation of Fundamental Constitutional Rights

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has issued guidelines to prevent child marriages, stating that child marriages violate the rights to self-determination, choice, autonomy, sexuality, health and education of children. The Court noted that child marriages impose mature burdens on children who are not physically or mentally prepared to comprehend the significance of marriage. When women are forced into marriages to protect their …

Analysing India’s progress towards the elimination of child marriages
10 months ago

Analysing India’s progress towards the elimination of child marriages

Hindustan Times  

India has made remarkable strides in the decline of child marriages over the last few decades and has led global progress to eliminate the practice. There is also a discrepancy in reported numbers, where despite high prevalence of child marriages recorded under NFHS-V, National Crime Records Bureau’s annual ‘Crime in India’ report recorded an average of only around 360 incidents …

Why is child marriage still high in West Bengal? | Explained
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Why is child marriage still high in West Bengal? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: A recent study on child marriage in India published in the Lancet noted the overall decrease in child marriage across the country but pointed out that four States, mainly Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra accounted for more than half of the total headcount burden of child marriages in girls. The publication states that while …

Unending saga of Chittoor’s child brides
1 year, 2 months ago

Unending saga of Chittoor’s child brides

The Hindu  

In the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the parents of a 13-year-old girl in a remote village of Bangarupalem mandal in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district frantically searched for medical help as the teen went into labour. Child marriage remains a harsh reality for over 100 forested villages in Bangarupalem, Palamaner, Gangavaram, Baireddipalle, V.Kota and Kuppam mandals in Chittoor …

Maharashtra: Child Marriage a Reality in Sugarcane Belt Beed, Where Couples Are Preferred as Farm Labourers
1 year, 4 months ago

Maharashtra: Child Marriage a Reality in Sugarcane Belt Beed, Where Couples Are Preferred as Farm Labourers

News 18  

Child marriage has become a serious issue in Maharashtra, a state known for the women’s education movement started by Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule. In Beed district alone, authorities have intercepted over 160 child marriages in the last eight months while, since January, police have filed 21 FIRs against parents as well as relatives. Maharashtra’s highest number of child marriages in …

Teachers, Anganwadi staff can play a key role in preventing child marriages, says child rights panel chief
1 year, 5 months ago

Teachers, Anganwadi staff can play a key role in preventing child marriages, says child rights panel chief

The Hindu  

State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Chairman Kesali Appa Rao has said the poor functioning and negligence of the Education Department staff was among the reasons for the continuing child marriages in the State. Speaking at a State-level consultation on ‘AP Prohibition of Child Marriage Rules - 2023’ under the Child Marriage Prohibition Act, 2006, jointly organised by SCPCR, …

Why does child marriage continue to be an issue in India? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 10 months ago

Why does child marriage continue to be an issue in India? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Earlier this month, Assam began a massive crackdown against child marriages in the State - so far, over 4,000 cases have been registered and over 3,000 people have been arrested. Assam has high rates of child marriage - while the all-India figure as per the latest National Family Health Survey was 23.3%, in Assam, the figure was 31.8 percent. The …

The battle against child marriage
1 year, 10 months ago

The battle against child marriage

The Hindu  

For the first time in more than two decades, a police team from the Ulukunchi outpost came asking questions at Birsingi, a village in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district. Assam’s Director-General of Police, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, said the exercise was planned after the Chief Minister sought action against large-scale child marriages two months ago. Seeking the cooperation of the people …

Action on child marriage in Assam leaves girls in distress
1 year, 10 months ago

Action on child marriage in Assam leaves girls in distress

The Hindu  

Nimee's* eyes do not sparkle with the joy of new motherhood, instead, they reflect the fear, insecurity and sense of foreboding that stalks her village in Morigaon district of Assam. While Ms. Nimee is among the thousands of child brides whose husbands were arrested in a State-wide crackdown against child marriage by the Assam Police over the last two days, …

Over 4,000 cases lodged as part of campaign against child marriages in Assam
1 year, 10 months ago

Over 4,000 cases lodged as part of campaign against child marriages in Assam

Hindustan Times  

Over 4,000 cases have been registered as part of the campaign against under-aged marriages in Assam, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday. On January 23, the Assam Cabinet approved a crackdown on child marriages as the National Family Health Survey-5 carried out between 2019 and 2020 showed that percentage of women aged between 20-24 married before the legal …

Child marriage rears its ugly head in Rajasthan
2 years ago

Child marriage rears its ugly head in Rajasthan

The Hindu  

On a sunny November afternoon in Banjaras, a tribal hamlet in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, 17-year-old Pooja Banjara sports a smile when asked what she aspires to be in life. “I was just around nine years old when my family fixed my marriage for the first time,” says Pooja, who then had just enrolled herself in a local school run by …

Explained | How is India planning to end child marriage?
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained | How is India planning to end child marriage?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. Eight States have a higher prevalence of child marriage than the national average — West Bengal, Bihar and Tripura top the list with more than 40% …

Jharkhand records country's highest percentage of child marriage among girls
2 years, 2 months ago

Jharkhand records country's highest percentage of child marriage among girls

The Hindu  

Jharkhand has recorded the highest percentage of underage girls getting married, according to the latest demographic sample survey by the Union Home Ministry. The percentage of girls getting married before attaining majority is as high as 5.8 in Jharkhand, according to the survey brought out by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs. "The …

Jharkhand records country\'s highest percentage of child marriage among girls
2 years, 2 months ago

Jharkhand records country\'s highest percentage of child marriage among girls

Deccan Chronicle  

Ranchi: Infamous for witchcraft killings, Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of having the highest percentage of underage girls getting married, according to the latest demographic sample survey by the union home ministry. "The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years of age is 1.9 at the national level and varies from 0.0 in Kerala to 5.8 …

Jharkhand records country's highest percentage of child marriage among girls
2 years, 2 months ago

Jharkhand records country's highest percentage of child marriage among girls

India TV News  

Highlights Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of having highest percentage of underage girls getting married Jharkhand and West Bengal, only states where half of the women are married before the age of 21 32 people were killed on allegations of practicing witchcraft in Jharkhand in 2015 Child Marriage: Infamous for witchcraft killings, Jharkhand has earned the disrepute of having the …

In Odisha’s Nayagarh, a data-driven solution to child marriage
2 years, 3 months ago

In Odisha’s Nayagarh, a data-driven solution to child marriage

The Hindu  

With the aim of eradicating child marriage, Nayagarh, a tiny Odisha district, has adopted a unique initiative by scrupulously recording information on all adolescent girls in the district. Observing that child marriages are solemnised in the age group of 14-19 and dropouts among girls’ students continued to be high, the district administration launched the Aliva programme in January this year. …

Child marriages remain a bane for Telangana girls
2 years, 7 months ago

Child marriages remain a bane for Telangana girls

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: According to a 2019-2021 national family health survey report, around 27 per cent of women in Telangana get married before the legal minimum age of 18 years. Devi said that parents want to get their teenage daughter married as soon as they find out about her affair as they think that this could bring disrepute to the family. The …

"Numbers Are Mind Boggling": Bombay High Court Observes About Child Marriages In 16 Tribal Districts In Maharashtra
2 years, 7 months ago

"Numbers Are Mind Boggling": Bombay High Court Observes About Child Marriages In 16 Tribal Districts In Maharashtra

Live Law  

Three thousand children born out of child marriages were found to be severely malnourished, while six hundred and one children born out of such unisons died in the past three years, an expert committee formed by the Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court on Monday. "The numbers are mind boggling," Chief Justice Dipankar Datta observed while later asserting in …

More than 15,000 child marriages in 16 Maharashtra districts over last 3 years: Report
2 years, 7 months ago

More than 15,000 child marriages in 16 Maharashtra districts over last 3 years: Report

India Today  

In the last three years, in sixteen mostly tribal-dominated districts of Maharashtra, there have been 15,253 cases of child marriage and 6,582 malnutrition deaths. FINDINGS Just in these 16 districts of Maharashtra, as many as 6,582 child deaths occurred over three years from 2019-20 to 2021-22 due to malnutrition, out of which 601 cases involved parents who were victims of …

NCRB Data Shows 50% Rise in Child Marriage Cases in 2020; Experts Say More Reporting May Be Factor
3 years, 3 months ago

NCRB Data Shows 50% Rise in Child Marriage Cases in 2020; Experts Say More Reporting May Be Factor

News 18  

About 50 per cent rise in the cases of child marriages has been recorded in 2020 over the previous year, according to the recent NCRB data, with experts saying it does not only mean there has been an increase in these instances but that there also has been a rise in reporting. According to the National Crime Records Bureau data …

About 50% rise in child marriage cases in 2020; experts say more reporting may be a factor
3 years, 3 months ago

About 50% rise in child marriage cases in 2020; experts say more reporting may be a factor

India Today  

About 50 per cent rise in the cases of child marriages has been recorded in 2020 over the previous year, according to the recent NCRB data, with experts saying it does not only mean there has been an increase in these instances but that there also has been a rise in reporting. According to the National Crime Records Bureau data …

Spike in child marriages, says Assam Social Welfare Department data
3 years, 4 months ago

Spike in child marriages, says Assam Social Welfare Department data

The Hindu  

Cases of child marriage in Assam are on the rise, data provided by the State’s Social Welfare Department said. Social Welfare Minister Ajanta Neog told the Assembly on August 10 that 3,192 child marriages were recorded from 2016-17 fiscal to the 2020-21 financial year. The child marriage figure jumped to 1,089 during 2019-20, the financial year when Chief Minister Himanta …

Crime pushing underage marriage of girls
3 years, 9 months ago

Crime pushing underage marriage of girls

Live Mint  

Underage marriages continue in several parts of India despite the laws against them. This reason gets clearer from a new study, which finds that underage marriages of daughters are more likely in localities where crimes against women are perceived to be higher. The study finds that a family’s decision to marry a daughter underage is influenced majorly by local crimes …

Rise in teenage pregnancy, higher anaemia rate in women: NFHS-5 phase data
4 years ago

Rise in teenage pregnancy, higher anaemia rate in women: NFHS-5 phase data

The Hindu  

The 5th National Family Health Survey data for 17 States and 5 Union Territories released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has indicated a stark disparity in access to the Internet by men, in contrast to women in a number of States. While the detailed report with data for all the States is awaited, the data from the …

17.26 Million Married Children and Adolescents in 10-19 Age Group Present in India: CRY
4 years, 2 months ago

17.26 Million Married Children and Adolescents in 10-19 Age Group Present in India: CRY

News 18  

New Delhi: There are 17.26 million married children and adolescents within the age group of 10-19 years in India, child rights NGO CRY said in a new study, highlighting the burden of under-age marriage plaguing the country. “With a huge burden of under-age marriage – 17.26 million married children and adolescents within the age group of 10-19 years or 7 …

17.26 million married children, adolescents in 10-19 age group present in India: Report
4 years, 2 months ago

17.26 million married children, adolescents in 10-19 age group present in India: Report

Live Mint  

New Delhi: There are 17.26 million married children and adolescents within the age group of 10-19 years in India, child rights NGO CRY said in a new study, highlighting the burden of under-age marriage plaguing the country. "With a huge burden of under-age marriage - 17.26 million married children and adolescents within the age group of 10-19 years or 7 …

How School Girls From This Uttar Pradesh Village Stopped Child Marriages During the Pandemic
4 years, 3 months ago

How School Girls From This Uttar Pradesh Village Stopped Child Marriages During the Pandemic

News 18  

It was a phone call that saved 13-year-old Preeti from becoming a child bride. The 13-year-old goes to Pardada Pardadi Educational Society’s Inter College, an all-girls school in Uttar Pradesh that teaches its 1,500 students on how to be a feminist. That is why we offer these benefits so it acts as a driving force for parents to continue sending …

Increase in child marriage cases in Maharashtra due to lockdown: Reports
4 years, 3 months ago

Increase in child marriage cases in Maharashtra due to lockdown: Reports

Op India  

As per a report by journalist Kamlesh Sutar of India Today Group, child marriages in Maharashtra have registered a sharp rise in recent times, as families battle the economic woes caused by the coronavirus-induced lockdown. More than 200 cases of child marriages reported in Maharashtra from March to June 2020 The phenomenon of rise in child marriages is not unique …

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