With an aim to end the social menace of child marriage in region, Hazaribagh Deputy
Commissioner Nancy Sahay initiated a campaign of child marriage free India in all the anganwadi centers, schools, panchayat and other institutions in the district.
In the presence of Deputy Commissioner Sahay a pledge was taken
to make India child marriage free and to spread awareness about
the social ill. The district social security officer Indu Prabha Khalko told that to achieve the objective of the campaign the deputy commissioner said that we have to make ‘Surkshit Bachpan, Surkshit Bharat’.
The district administration has instructed to all the mukhiya’s and public representatives to organize the programme to spread awareness against child marriage, how to prevent the child marriage and what are the legal consequences after the child marriage.
She further instructed that in a special programme related to child marriage, the people take the pledge to prevent this evil in the society. She further said that that public representative will perform their duty honestly and they will be honoured by the district administration on 26th January.
She further said that the public awareness is the key for the success of this programme, because maximum people in the rural society are still practicing child marriage. If they will be fully aware, then the number of cases would reduce.