Saharsa, 28 November (HS). On the call of Child Marriage Free India, Kosi Lok Manch org.zed an awareness rally, candle march, affidavit and community meeting at the district, block and panchayat level. In which thousands of people participated, Kosi Lok Manch convener Ghuran Mahato said on Thursday. Somewhere during the press conference held.
He said that under this campaign by Kosi Lokmanch, from November 27 to December 10, through awareness meetings, candle march and affidavit in 50 villages of four blocks of the district, Simri Bakhtiyarpur, Solar Bazaar Mahishi and Sattar Kataiya, its workers and Panchayat representatives, Anganwadi workers and Awareness campaign is being run with the cooperation of related government departments. He said that this year in the district two child marriages have been done through legal process and about two hundred marriages have been considered. Was stopped deliberately.
He said that this campaign will give impetus to the fight to eradicate child marriage. Kosi Lokmanch is a partner of Just Rights for Children, a nationwide coalition of more than 250 leading NGOs. Who is working for the prevention of child marriage in the district. Shri Mahato said that this campaign is a decisive step towards fulfilling our dream of a developed India.
We cannot fulfill this dream without making the country’s girls educated, empowered and self-reliant. Child marriage is the biggest obstacle in this. We welcome this decision of the Ministry to take all the parties together to prevent child marriage and implement the defense, protection and prosecution policy. It is a matter of pride for us at Just Rights for Children. Being a cooperative org.zation, the campaign was started in the district. It has now become a nationwide campaign.
A child marriage victim present at the program expressed satisfaction over the government’s resolve to end this crime. She said that due to the society’s negligence, many minor girls are thrown into the quagmire of child marriage. Certainly there has been an improvement in the mindset of the society but now this campaign of the government will further accelerate this change which will end child marriage forever in the coming years. Shyam Rath Kumar and Sunil Kumar Malik and others were present on this occasion.
