Schemes of Madhya Pradesh have earned national recognition and are implemented by several States. After ladli laxmi and Beti Bachao, lado Yojana is the third one to be replicated by Haryana Government.
Giving this information, Women and Child Development Minister Maya Singh informed that a study team of Haryana Women and Child Development Department will visit Madhya Pradesh in the last week of August. It is noteworthy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conferred Pradhan Mantri lok Sewa Utkrishtata Puruskar for year 2014 to lado Abhiyan. During his visit to Madhya Pradesh, British Home Minister had also lauded excellent results of the campaign.
The Minister informed that lado Abhiyan was implemented in the State in February 2013. Its main objective is to eradicate social evil of child marriage. For this, campaign is being undertaken constantly in 51 districts for last 3 years. Core groups have been formed in every village and ward to change people’s mindset. Strict administrative action has been ensured to prevent child marriages.
Planned strategy has been adopted to ensure success of lado Abhiyan. School principals, representatives of NGOs, society’s influential people, representatives of religions, health workers and prominent villages have been connected with the campaign. Mobile and phone numbers have been widely publicised to obtain immediate
information about child marriages.
Special monitoring is being undertaken after identifying areas where there is possibility of child marriages. Efforts to prevent child marriages have been made to the extent that appeal has been issued to printing presses not to print wedding cards involving child marriage and Halwais, bands, tent houses, horse owners and transporters not to render their services in such events.
Through lado Abhiyan 4.07 lakh core group members, 35,000 workshops have been held. Over 16 lakh people participated in awareness programmes. Awareness campaigns were held and students were apprised of legal provisions in over 22,000 schools. As a result, success has been achieved in preventing 51,835 child marriages during last 2 years. Another achievement of the campaign is that 1.11 lakh children were admitted to schools.
Moving ahead, several girls got their child marriage nullified through courts.