Bachpan Bachao Andolan strikes in direction of youngster marriage-free Uttarakhand

Express News Service

DEHRADUN: With an intention to finish youngster marriage in India by 2030, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), based by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, organised a state session in collaboration with the Home Department of the Uttarakhand authorities.

Underlining the significance of collective efforts of all stakeholders to fight youngster marriage and on the identical time emphasising that training is a significant instrument to assist utterly eradicate youngster marriage, state Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Radha Raturi mentioned, “To ensure that child marriage is effectively fought and combated, we need to create a collective action plan and we also need to work with vulnerable children to ensure that no injustice is done with them”.

On this event, all of the stakeholders deliberated via discussions and made a roadmap to make Uttarakhand youngster marriage free.

“Last year, over 76000 women in 7028 villages across the country took to the streets to raise their voice against child marriage in just one day”, mentioned Dhananjay Tingal, govt director of BBA, including that “to fight and completely eradicate child marriage, we need a multi-pronged and multi-pronged strategy”.

State Additional Chief Secretary Radha Raturi additionally signed an oath to affix the marketing campaign for youngster marriage-free Uttarakhand. (Photo | Express)

Uttarakhand Director General of Police Ashok Kumar mentioned numerous challenges in the best way of tackling the problem of kid marriage and acknowledged the urgency of implementing concepts to sort out youngster marriage. “It is ironic that when we are fighting this social evil, child marriage is socially accepted in the society, while it is morally and legally wrong,” DGP Ashok Kumar mentioned.

Stressing the necessity for a united strategy to preventing youngster marriage, Prashant Arya, Additional Secretary, Women Empowerment and Child Development, mentioned, “Child marriage has deep roots in our society on one hand, but at the same time we have to make everyone aware that this social evil affects children, it destroys not only their childhood but their entire life”.

According to the 2011 census, there are 51,57,863 women in India and of those, round 54,858 have been married earlier than the age of 18 in Uttarakhand. This is a trigger of significant concern and requires pressing motion to guard younger women from the evil of kid marriage. The National Family Health Survey-V (NFHS 2019-21) studies that nationally, 23.3% of girls within the 20-24 age group have been married earlier than attaining the age of 18. Whereas, Uttarakhand reported that 9.8% of girls in the identical age group have been married earlier than the age of 18.

DEHRADUN: With an intention to finish youngster marriage in India by 2030, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), based by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, organised a state session in collaboration with the Home Department of the Uttarakhand authorities.

Underlining the significance of collective efforts of all stakeholders to fight youngster marriage and on the identical time emphasising that training is a significant instrument to assist utterly eradicate youngster marriage, state Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Radha Raturi mentioned, “To ensure that child marriage is effectively fought and combated, we need to create a collective action plan and we also need to work with vulnerable children to ensure that no injustice is done with them”.

On this event, all of the stakeholders deliberated via discussions and made a roadmap to make Uttarakhand youngster marriage free.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Last year, over 76000 women in 7028 villages across the country took to the streets to raise their voice against child marriage in just one day”, mentioned Dhananjay Tingal, govt director of BBA, including that “to fight and completely eradicate child marriage, we need a multi-pronged and multi-pronged strategy”.

State Additional Chief Secretary Radha Raturi additionally signed an oath to affix the marketing campaign for youngster marriage-free Uttarakhand. (Photo | Express)

Uttarakhand Director General of Police Ashok Kumar mentioned numerous challenges in the best way of tackling the problem of kid marriage and acknowledged the urgency of implementing concepts to sort out youngster marriage. “It is ironic that when we are fighting this social evil, child marriage is socially accepted in the society, while it is morally and legally wrong,” DGP Ashok Kumar mentioned.

Stressing the necessity for a united strategy to preventing youngster marriage, Prashant Arya, Additional Secretary, Women Empowerment and Child Development, mentioned, “Child marriage has deep roots in our society on one hand, but at the same time we have to make everyone aware that this social evil affects children, it destroys not only their childhood but their entire life”.

According to the 2011 census, there are 51,57,863 women in India and of those, round 54,858 have been married earlier than the age of 18 in Uttarakhand. This is a trigger of significant concern and requires pressing motion to guard younger women from the evil of kid marriage. The National Family Health Survey-V (NFHS 2019-21) studies that nationally, 23.3% of girls within the 20-24 age group have been married earlier than attaining the age of 18. Whereas, Uttarakhand reported that 9.8% of girls in the identical age group have been married earlier than the age of 18.