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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 36 years after law, girls still forced into devadasi custom -Prakash Kamat

36 years after law, girls still forced into devadasi custom -Prakash Kamat

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published Published on Jan 15, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 15, 2019
-The Hindu

With no will to enforce the 1982 Act, girls from marginalised communities in Karnataka are still trafficked

Panaji:
More than thirty-six years after the Karnataka Devadasis (Prohibition of Dedication) Act of 1982 was passed, the State government is yet to issue the rules for administering the law. Meanwhile the practice of dedicating young girls to temples as an offering to appease the gods persists not just in Karnataka, but has also spread to neighbouring Goa.

Two new studies on the devadasi practice by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, paint a grim picture of the apathetic approach of the legislature and enforcement agencies to crack down on the practice, particularly prevalent among oppressed communities of north Karnataka.

A disturbing aspect revealed by the new studies is that special children, with physical or mental disabilities, are more vulnerable to be dedicated as devadasis — nearly one in five (or 19%) of the devadasis that were part of the NLSIU study exhibited such disabilities.

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The Hindu, 15 January, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/36-years-after-law-girls-still-forced-into-devadasi-custom/article25995956.ece?homepage=true
 

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