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A run to marque Mysuru a ‘child marriage-free district’ was launched connected Wednesday with a pledge to destruct the societal evil and look arsenic a exemplary territory successful the State.
Additional Deputy Commissioner P. Shivaraj inaugurated a rally organised arsenic portion of the Bal Vivah Mukt Abhiyan, jointly organised by the territory administration, Zilla Panchayat and different departments, with the enactment of assorted NGOs.
Speaking connected the occasion, Dr. Shivaraj said kid matrimony is simply a societal evil and stressed that children indispensable person due acquisition and bask their childhood.
He said the territory medication has taken respective measures to forestall kid marriages. A helpline (1098) has been launched to alteration the nationalist to lodge complaints, and contiguous enactment volition beryllium taken to halt specified marriages. Officials, on with NGOs, regularly sojourn wide matrimony events and different wedding events to cheque for instances of kid marriage. He added that members of the nationalist often alert authorities erstwhile they travel crossed specified cases.
Emphasising that nationalist enactment is important to eradicate the menace, Dr. Shivaraj called upon citizens to cooperate successful making Mysuru a ‘child marriage-free district’.
On the occasion, individuals who had worked towards preventing kid marriages were felicitated.
Members of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, kid extortion officers and representatives of assorted NGOs were present.
