Child marriages in India halved from 47.4 % to 23.3 % in 2019-21 since the introduction of the Prevention of Child Marriage Act in 2006, Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi ...

India prevented nearly 200,000 child marriages in the past year, yet one in five girls still marries before 18. A new campaign, Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat, targets seven states with high child marriage ...

This campaign is also known as the Child Marriage Free India campaign. The campaign webpage was launched to prevent child marriage and other harmful practices. Its goal is to "help girls achieve ...

About two lakh child marriages were prevented in the past year, even as one in five girls in India is married before reaching the legal age of 18, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi ...

About two lakh child marriages were prevented in the past one year, even as one in five girls in India is married before reaching the legal age of 18, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna ...

Prasada Rao, he administered an oath to stop child marriages in a programme organised at Cantonment Municipal High School in Vizianagaram. He said that the Union government has put special focus ...

New Delhi, Nov 27 (PTI) About two lakh child marriages were prevented in the past one year, even as one in five girls in India is married before reaching the legal age of 18, Women and Child ...

Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi said that reports suggest 2 lakh child marriages have been stopped in the the last one year. While speaking at the launch of national campaign to ...

New Delhi: About two lakh child marriages were prevented in the past one year, even as one in five girls in India is married before reaching the legal age of 18, Women and Child Development Minister ...

VIENTIANE, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government has committed to ending child, early, and forced marriages, as well as improving access to sexual and reproductive health services in the country, ...

Speaking at an event to launch the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign, she urged all states and Union territories to create specific action plans aimed at reducing child marriage rates to below 5 per ...