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Telangana has been identified arsenic a cardinal absorption State successful a nationwide propulsion to destruct kid marriage, with 26 districts marked for intensive involution implicit the adjacent year.
The effort is portion of an initiative, announced by the Just Rights for Children (JRC), a conjugation of much than 250 NGOs, which aims to marque 1 lakh villages crossed India child-marriage escaped wrong the adjacent 1 year. These villages autumn wrong the districts identified arsenic high-prevalence areas nether the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) V (2019-21).
The announcement coincides with the archetypal day of the Union Government’s “Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat” campaign. Data from NFHS-V shows that 23.5% of women successful Telangana are joined earlier 18, somewhat supra the nationalist mean of 23.3%. The concern varies sharply crossed districts, with prevalence rates supra 30% successful 8 districts including Vikarabad, Khammam, Jogulamba Gadwal, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Medak, Kamareddy and Sangareddy. Nine different districts transcend the nationalist average.
JRC, which works with 11 spouse organisations successful Telangana, prevented 10,518 kid marriages successful the authorities successful the past twelvemonth alone. Nationally, the web reports having stopped implicit 1 lakh kid marriages during the aforesaid period, making it the largest civilian nine grouping moving successful kid protection.
Bhuwan Ribhu, laminitis of JRC, emphasised the request for deeper assemblage engagement successful the coming year. “The relation of assemblage groups, religion leaders, panchayats and citizens is cardinal to gathering a kid marriage-free India. The Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat run has go a exemplary for the world. It besides stands arsenic a solemnisation of our corporate enactment to extremity this transgression against children,” helium said.
JRC’s enactment draws connected the 3P exemplary — Protection, Prevention and Prosecution — which it credits for preventing much than 4.35 lakh kid marriages crossed India betwixt April 2023 and November 2025.
To people 1 twelvemonth of Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched a 100-day intensive enactment plan, culminating connected March 8, 2026.
The program is divided into 3 phases, with the archetypal signifier focusing connected consciousness programmes successful acquisition institutes followed by spiritual places and marriage-related work providers, including temples, mosques, churches, gurudwaras, wedding halls, and set parties successful the 2nd phase. Gram panchayats and municipal wards to fortify community-level engagement and ownership would beryllium portion of the 3rd phase.
