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Forum formed to fight child marriage

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: A State-level meet on child marriages organised here on Saturday saw leaders cutting across party lines, people's organisations and women calling for a collective initiative to curb the practice.

Several voluntary organisations came together to constitute a forum to launch a campaign against child marriages.

With backing from parties which agreed to set up child rights cells, the forum intends to launch a massive campaign.

State Human Right Commission Chairman B. Subhashan Reddy, inaugurating the meet, asked the Government to strengthen laws pertaining to child marriages and called for effective implementation of the Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act, 2002.

TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao said as Union Labour Minister he had taken initiative to amend the Prevention of Child Labour Act. State Women's Commission Chairperson Mary Ravindranath said the commission would take a serious note of the child marriages.

Magsaysay awardee Shanta Sinha wanted a status report on the girl child and child marriages prepared at the zilla parishad level so that it could be presented at the Assembly.

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