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Panchayat secretaries, Anganwadi teachers, ASHA workers and members of Self-Help Group (SHG) indispensable play a proactive relation successful preventing kid marriages, ensuring due nutrition for children and spreading consciousness connected the extortion of women and children, said Justice P. Sam Koshy, Judge of the Telangana High Court and Executive Chairman of the Telangana State Legal Services Authority (TSLSA). He was addressing a sensitisation programme connected ‘Protection of Women and Children – Social Responsibility’, successful Kamareddy connected Saturday.
Administrative Judge for Kamareddy territory Justice Nandikonda, who was the impermanent of honour, underlined the request for wide consciousness of laws related to the prevention of kid marriages and the extortion of women.
Justice Koshy reiterated that kid matrimony is simply a punishable offence and clarified that marriages involving girls beneath 18 years and boys beneath 21 years are illegal. He warned that ineligible enactment would beryllium taken against parents, elders and mediators involved, and highlighted the adverse interaction of kid matrimony connected the health, acquisition and aboriginal of girls.
He urged the nationalist to study instances of kid matrimony to Childline 1098 oregon acrophobic authorities and stressed corporate work successful implementing the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act and the POSH Act. He besides explained the relation of ineligible services authorities successful safeguarding women and children.
Posters connected applicable laws were released connected the occasion. Certificates of appreciation were presented to children rescued from kid marriages, peculiar officers of KGBV schools, assemblage mediation volunteers and a teacher for consciousness initiatives. Two wheelchairs were distributed to elder citizens and sewing machines to women beneficiaries. An consciousness skit by the Police Kala Jatha Brundam was besides staged.
Principal District and Sessions Judge C.H.V.R.R. Varaprasad, Superintendent of Police M. Rajesh Chandra, Additional District Collector V. Victor, Bar Association president Nanda Ramesh and District Welfare Officer Prameela besides addressed the participants.
