Child Marriage Free India: A Pan-India Campaign To Protect 30 Million Girls
Child marriage is an age-old social evil, which is prevalent in our society since time immemorial. It has no barriers of caste, culture or religion. India is home to the largest number of child brides in the world with girls as young as 8-year-old are married off to men much older to them. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the problem with increased instances of adolescent girls being married off. Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) along with NDTV launches a pan-India campaign on creating a 'Child Marriage Free India'. The campaign will cover 5,000 villages and engage more than 10 million citizens across the country to spread the message of prevention and prohibition of child marriage.
