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…