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National Report
Para 117) India continues to implement the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, which makes child marriage a cognizable and non-bailable offence. Additionally, the Government organizes regular media campaigns and outreach programmes on the detrimental effects of child marriages. The NCPCR has also taken active steps to prevent child marriages, by way of directing grassroots-level agencies and officers to take preventive measures, organizing camps on child rights across the country, etc.
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Para 10) NHRC stated that child marriages based on illegal custom took place clandestinely.
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UN Compilation
UN Compilation
Para 100) The United Nations country team indicated that the Government had taken significant steps to reduce child marriage through programmes such as Beti-Bachao, Beti-Padhao (“save the girl child, educate the girl child”) and that, as a result, the incidence of child marriage had decreased by 50 per cent in 15 years. Nevertheless, 23 per cent of females still married before the age of 18.