11K Children in Odisha Vulnerable to Child Marriages, Says NCPCR

They include those who remained absent from school for 30 consecutive days in 2023-24

- Diana Sahu @Bhubaneswar

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has identified over 10,000 children as vulnerable to child marriages in Odisha.

These are children who remained absent from school for 30 consecutive days without any notice during the 2023-24 academic session as well as those who had dropped out.

In order to bring out standard operating procedures (SOPs) for preventing child marriages in India, the apex child rights panel conducted a nation-wide survey of such students along with the state governments. In Odisha, it found out 11,053 such children by mapping 26,415 schools in 19,683 villages/blocks.