AP Press Academy chairman Okay. Srinivas, SCPCR members and representatives of Little one Rights and You collaborating in a State-level session on youngster marriage in Vijayawada on Wednesday.
| Photograph Credit score: Okay.V.S. Giri

“I used to be learning in Class IX once I was married off. I pleaded with my mother and father to place it off, however no person listened to me and forcibly went forward with the marriage,” mentioned a younger lady, now a mom of two, at a State-level session on the menace of kid marriages organised by an NGO known as Little one Rights and You (CRY).

The younger lady urged the officers current on the programme to take robust measures to place an finish to youngster marriages.

“Although an NGO had made all makes an attempt to forestall the wedding from happening, my mother and father secretly made all of the preparations and I used to be compelled to go forward with it. I grew to become a mom to 2 daughters at a really younger age, as a result of which I’ve developed well being points. Within the meantime, my husband and in-laws started harassing me for giving beginning to 2 women. My husband has now abandoned me. Getting married off as a toddler has destroyed my life,” the girl mentioned.

One other lady narrated an analogous ordeal on the programme. She thanked the activists who had been waging a wrestle to remove the observe in society and urged the federal government to behave powerful in opposition to those that had been performing youngster marriages.

AP Press Academy Chairman Kommineni Srinivas, who attended the programme, requested the federal government businesses and the NGOs engaged on the problem to utilise the providers of the media to focus on the legal guidelines, penalties of kid marriages and the punishments and put an finish to menace.

State Fee for Safety of Little one Rights (SCPCR) members J. Rajendra Prasad and T. Adi Lakshmi mentioned the Fee was organising consciousness programmes in faculties and schools in opposition to youngster marriages.

CRY AP and Telangana senior supervisor Badugu Chennaiah has ppealed to the Little one Marriage Prohibition Officers (CMPOs), Girls Growth and Little one Welfare (WD&CW) and law enforcement officials to affix fingers to forestall youngster marriage.

South Area programme head of CRY, Y. Peter Suneel, shared the examine report and the findings of the organisation to the officers and different contributors. He defined the explanations for youngster marriages and the affect on youngsters.

Krishna District Little one Safety Officer Rama, NGO representatives Lalithamma, P. Francis Thambi, Sudha, Ramesh and others participated.