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Pandemic, poverty spur child marriages in Madhya Pardesh -Anup Dutta

-The Hindu

Loss of livelihoods has pushed poor families to opt for early marriages

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown have proved to be new drivers of child marriages in rural Madhya Pradesh with several reports of such ceremonies from different parts of the State during the ongoing marriage season.

“I am a widow and I don’t have any kind of social security. Marriage is the only safe option for my daughters,” said Bijja Bai Jatav [name changed], sitting beside a heap of mattresses and quilts piled up on a wooden bed, in front of her house in Rujankhedi village in Nasrullaganj teshsil of Sehore district.

Madhya Pradesh recorded 46 child marriages between November 2019 and March 2020, a figure that that jumped to 117 in just three months of the lockdown from April to June 2020, data provided by ChildLine India, an NGO, said.

According to ChildLine India, across India 5,214 child marriages were reported in the first four months of lockdown between March to June.

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