By Express News Service
BERHAMPUR: Around 1,032 villages and 140 Wards of Ganjam district, which recorded extra incidents of kid marriages than the nationwide common until 2018, have been declared baby marriage free by the district administration on Wednesday. Of these, the very best of 111 villages are in Chatrapur block.
Eight districts of the State earlier recorded extra baby marriages than the nationwide common of 26.8 computer and Ganjam was one amongst them with a prevalence fee of 29.8 computer, as per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4. To arrest baby marriages by 2030, the Ganjam administration with the assistance of Unicef and ActionAid had final yr applied Nirbhaya Kadhi programme underneath which, it had formulated panchayat and ward-level taskforces to create consciousness amongst folks concerning the ills of kid marriage.
Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange stated no baby marriages have been reported in any of the 1,032 villages and 140 Wards after implementation of the Nirbhaya Kadhi programme.
