• 234 child marriage complaints received; 204 weddings stopped • Shocking statistics emerge at Zilla Panchayat monthly meeting Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka saw a sharp rise in child marriages during the Coronavirus lockdown period last year with maximum children married off within four months (April-July), according to the Karnataka High Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR). …
Mysuru/Mysore: A forcible child marriage has been stopped by the District Police, after the would-be minor bride’s friend tagged the message of her friend seeking help to the Bengaluru City Police Facebook page. The Bengaluru Police, who responded to the alert, contacted Mysuru District Police, who have successfully stopped the marriage. The marriage of…
Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar has asked the officials concerned to administer an oath daily at schools on prevention of child marriage. He was addressing a meeting at his Office here on Wednesday with Officers of Department of Women and Child Development, Department of Public Instruction and District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) to…
Chamarajanagar: A birth certificate or an SSLC marks card are valid documents to determine the age of a child or a person. Birth registration has the potential to play a crucial role in reducing child marriage. But here is a case where the SSLC marks card was tampered with to marry off a minor girl. …
Mysuru: Hundreds of school students took out an awareness rally sensitising public on prevention of child marriage, protection of children rights and compulsory education, from Highway Circle to Bal Bhavan at Bannimantap in city on May 14. They rally was organised by Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), Magic Bus Foundation of India and Department of Public…
Mysuru: Stressing on the need for launching more awareness programmes on child marriage, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar has called for strict measures to prevent child marriages. Chairing a meeting of the District Co-ordination Committee of the Women and Child Welfare Department at the DC’s office here on Thursday, the DC said that child marriage…
58 cases reported in Mysuru in the last 10 months Mysuru: Principal Civil Judge Senior Division Sunil A. Shettar disclosed that Karnataka State is still witnessing 23 percent of child marriage though the State and Central Governments have enacted various laws for prevention of the same. He was speaking at the one- day workshop on…
Mysuru: The officials of the Women and Child Development Department, Women’s Helpline and N.R. Police, who raided a Kalyana Mantap in city on Wednesday, have prevented a child marriage from taking place. But the parents of both the bride and the groom, who learnt about the raid, helped the bride and groom to escape from…
Child not a bride! Awareness rally against #childmarriage was organised by Women and Child Welfare Department.
An awareness rally against child marriage was organised by Women and Child Welfare Department in city this morning. More than 200 NSS students of Maharani’s Arts College took part in the rally which was flagged off by Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep in front of his office. Speaking on the occasion, Randeep said that the Dist….
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