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Parents successful the Sri Sathya Sai territory connected Monday (December 15, 2025) publically pledged to refrain from arranging underage marriages for their daughters. The pledge was taken during an lawsuit held astatine the PGRS gathering hallway successful the Collectorate, arsenic portion of the “Child Marriage Free India – 100 Days Programme.”
District Collector A. Shyam Prasad, who administered the pledge, appreciated them for voluntarily submitting written bonds to affirm their committedness to safeguard their daughters’ education, aspirations, and future. “Child marriages are not lone a punishable offence nether instrumentality but besides irreversibly harm the physical, emotional, and societal well-being of girls,” the Collector said.
The Collector instructed the officials to extensively organise consciousness campaigns crossed schools, inferior colleges, and grade colleges to amended students, parents, and communities astir the adverse interaction of kid matrimony connected nine and the ineligible provisions against it. Underlining the value of corporate responsibility, Mr. Shyam Prasad urged each stakeholders to enactment unneurotic to alteration the Sathya Sai territory into a child-marriage-free district.
Joint Collector M. Mourya Bharadwaj and elder officials from the revenue, police, ICDS, and Medical and Health Departments were present.
