With an objective to create awareness among adolescent boys and girls about the provisions of the Child Marriage Act, the Balya Vivaha Pratirodha Pratirodh Mancha in collaboration with the Ganjam district administration, UNICEF and ActionAid held a district-level adolescent collective meeting here on Thursday.
The district administration announced that they would support the Balya Bibaha Pratirodh Mancha’s efforts and start a process to track the adolescent boys and girls with the help of frontline workers.
The administration would also develop an action plan to involve the Mission Shakti and other line departments to combat child marriage.
Finally, the administration announced that they would start a campaign to make Ganjam a child marriage-free district.
Among others, District Education Officer Sanatana Panda, District Social Welfare Officer Manorama Reddy, District Child Protection Officer Subodha
Ku Sarangi, Unicef representatives, ActionAid State manager BN Durga, Child Marriage Prohibition Officers, Childline and Ganjam district coordinator Debabrata Mahunta and Koraput district coordinator Rajalaxmi were present