Hundreds of villages in 20 districts of Assam recently organized awareness programs against child marriage. The state government wants to make Assam child marriage-free by 2026. The National Family Health Survey reports that 31.8% of women in Assam were married before the age of 18. The government has made arrests and allocated funds to prevent child marriage, and is also considering banning polygamy.
In an almost never-before show of solidarity for a social cause under the direction of the government, hundreds of villages in 22 districts of Madhya Pradesh organized awareness programmes where an unprecedented number of men, women and children took pledge to eliminate child marriage from the
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