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Child marriages in Maharashtra soar during lockdown
ByMohua Das
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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The phenomenon of increased child marriages is a classic example of the many ways in which prolonged paralysis of all economic activity can have serious effects on society’s well-being. Devastation of lives is caused not only by death but by these ways too. In what is a saving grace, many of these cases have been blocked by alert activists, officials and state-backed advocacy groups, but while the government machinery continues its fight against the pandemic, it must also now get back to paying close attention to such aspects of community life which can take the state and, broadly, Indian society backward.
At least 92,203 interventions were made by Childline-a nodal government agency for children in distress -between May and July. Of these, 5,584 were related to child marriage.
The phenomenon of increased child marriages is a classic example of the many ways in which prolonged paralysis of all economic activity can have serious effects on society’s well-being. Devastation of lives is caused not only by death but by these ways too. In what is a saving grace, many of these cases have been blocked by alert activists, officials and state-backed advocacy groups, but while the government machinery continues its fight against the pandemic, it must also now get back to paying close attention to such aspects of community life which can take the state and, broadly, Indian society backward.
At least 92,203 interventions were made by Childline-a nodal government agency for children in distress -between May and July. Of these, 5,584 were related to child marriage.