Mysore/Mysuru: With schools reopening fully after a gap of over one-and-a-half years, Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) and officers from Women and Child Welfare Department of Mysuru are hoping to see a drastic decline in child marriages.
Ever since the pandemic began, there has been a dramatic spurt in child marriages where a majority of girls and boys have been married off because of COVID-19, lack of schooling, unemployment, pressure from parents and relatives, poverty and lack of alternatives. A heartening factor here is that many child marriages have been prevented by Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers along with their role in preventing the spread of the killer pandemic.
