Kawardha. Collector Janmejay Mahobe had organized a district level meeting in the past days and directed the officers of all the departments of the district to keep a close watch on all the marriage events to be held on Akshay Tritiya and to continuously monitor them. So that social evils like child marriage can be stopped completely. According to the instructions received, the nodal department for the prevention of child marriage is the Women and Child Development Department. Women and Child Development Department, District Program Officer, Anand Tiwari, under the leadership of District Child Protection Officer, Satyanarayan Rathore, for monitoring marriage events and activating district development block and panchayat level child marriage prevention committees and their cooperation in view of the possibility of child marriage. Block-wise additional teams of all the employees of the District Child Protection Unit were put on duty.
In which Kranthi Sahu Protection Officer Institutional and Nitin Kishori Verma Outreach Worker of District Child Protection Unit Kawardha, Rajaram Chandravanshi Protection Officer and Suresh Sahu Social Worker Pandariya, Avinash Thakur Counselor and Shyama Dhurve Outreach Worker Bodla and Parmeshwari Dhurve Social Worker and Vinay Janghel Giving the responsibility of Sahaspur Lohara area to the outreach worker, he was directed to remain active and monitor child marriage prevention by coordinating with Child Protection Committees, Child Marriage Prohibition Officers, Special Juvenile Police Unit and all stake holders in the concerned area. .
For effective prevention of child marriage, Child Marriage Prohibition Officers, District Child Protection Unit, Child Line and Special Juvenile Police Unit team along with Child Protection Committee and stake holders were deployed under all the police station area of the district and intensive monitoring of rural and urban areas. By appealing to the public representatives and common citizens for the prevention of child marriage, widespread dissemination, distribution of pamphlets, discussion and protection of child rights through various mediums, Child Marriage Prohibition Act and the harm and problems caused by child marriage, information about legal provisions Public awareness program was conducted while giving random checks of marriage events. During the investigation, information was received about the marriage ceremony of two minors under the Sahaspur police station area, which was immediately stopped by the Child Marriage Prevention Team and a declaration letter and panchnama were prepared on the spot, giving strict advice to the families who were secretly getting married. In this way, due to the activation of District Administration, Women and Child Development Department, District Child Protection Unit, Child Line and Special Juvenile Police Unit, success was achieved in stopping the marriage of two minors.