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Child marriages rampant in Khammam
Despite the measures taken by the government machinery to prevent child marriages, more than 150 children are married off every year in Khammam district. Child marriages are more prevalent in the Agency areas inhabited by tribals. According to officials, child marriages are rampant at Burgampad, Aswapuram, Wazeedu, Cherla, Palvoncha, Bhadrachalam, Kusumanchi, Sarapaka and Khammam rural areas.
Khammam: Despite the measures taken by the government machinery to prevent child marriages, more than 150 children are married off every year in Khammam district. Child marriages are more prevalent in the Agency areas inhabited by tribals. According to officials, child marriages are rampant at Burgampad, Aswapuram, Wazeedu, Cherla, Palvoncha, Bhadrachalam, Kusumanchi, Sarapaka and Khammam rural areas.
The child marriage has many side effects on girl’s health and it may often lead to mortality due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Though the officials have constituted child marriages prevention committees at the village-level with village secretaries, village revenue officers, school teachers, DWCRA group leaders and ANMs, they are unable to prevent the social malady.
Poverty and illiteracy are the main reasons which compel the people to marry off their children, especially daughters, at an early age. Soon after harvesting crops, the farmers make some money and they marry off their children to shed their responsibility even though they had not attained the marriageable age. There are also some cases where, 16-year-old girls are married off due to the terminal illness of their parents and as they wanted to see their daughters marriage before their death.
By: P Sharat Kumar
