Stop child marriages: DC
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Hassan Deputy Commissioner R. Girish has instructed officers tostop child marriages within the district. He gave this route at a gathering held in Hassan on Thursday.
Mr. Girish stated dad and mom and different relations, accountable for child marriages, must be booked underneath related legal guidelines. Enough care must be taken to guard kids compelled to get married at an early age.
There have been studies of child marriages within the district throughout the COVID-19 lockdown. Since April 2020, there have been 132 complaints of child marriages within the district. The officers stopped 90 of them and filed 32 circumstances.
Mr. Girish additionally instructed the officers to identification kids who misplaced their dad and mom owing to the pandemic and supply them with a month-to-month pay of ₹3,500 for his or her research. The caretakers at kids’s houses run by the federal government ought to maintain their well being and bear a COVID-19 take a look at as soon as in 15 days, even when they didn’t have signs.
Additional SP B.N. Nandini, District Health Officer K.H. Sathish Kumar, Deputy Director of Women and Child Development K.G. Dileep and others have been current on the assembly.
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