Who Are We

हमारा लक्ष्य बाल विवाह मुक्त भारत के अपने सपने को साकार करना है

What We Are Seeking To Address

Child marriage has a far-reaching impact on society, not only does it affect the life of the girl who is married at an early age, but also disrupts the growth and development of future generations, creating a vicious cycle leading to the creation of an unhealthy community. Child Marriage is a flagrant violation of all child and human rights. It is an impending child rape. The most prominent complications of child marriage include disruption in girl’s education, domestic violence (29.3%), forceful early pregnancies (6.8%) that lead to increased rates of female mortality, neonatal (24.9%) and post-natal mortality (41.9%), nutritional deficiencies among both mother (18.7%) and infant (35.2%) and other mental health issues (NFHS 5).

Child marriage is a crime in India. However, multiple communities and sects continue this malpractice due to the larger perception that personal laws supersede Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 (PCMA).

हमारी मांगें

बारहवीं कक्षा तक सभी बच्चों के लिए निःशुल्क शिक्षा की सुविधा

बारहवीं कक्षा तक शिक्षा और व्यावसायिक प्रशिक्षण के लिए योजनाओं और बुनियादी ढांचे के लिए समर्पित बजटीय आवंटन

अनियमितताएं होने पर वास्तविक समय उपस्थिति डेटा विश्लेषण और हस्तक्षेप

समाज के सभी वर्गों के लिए बाल विवाह के विरुद्ध कानूनों का प्रभावी क्रियान्वयन एवं प्रवर्तन

When And What We Are Trying to Achieve

CMFI is working to attain the tipping point to end child marriage, after which the society will not accept this evil practice and that will happen when the prevalence of child marriage is brought down to 5.5% by 2030, from the current national prevalence rate of 23.3%. This is being done by initially targeting high-prevalence districts and gradually focusing on all the districts of the country.

Noted child rights activist, author, Supreme Court lawyer and founder of CMFI campaign, Bhuwan Ribhu has authored a ‘When Children Have Children: Tipping Point to End Child Marriage’ and put forth a framework to make India child marriage free by 2030. This book shows the path to eliminating child marriage in India within the next decade.

As suggested by the author in the book, by adopting a systematic, highly focused, and intensive intervention model, over a phased timeline it is possible to reduce the national child marriage prevalence levels to 5.5% —the threshold, the tipping point, beyond which the prevalence is anticipated to diminish organically with reduced reliance on targeted interventions.

बाल विवाह से निपटने के लिए PICKET रणनीति

Through 161 NGO partners, CMFI is currently working in 265 districts with a high prevalence of child marriage, targeting awareness generation through sensitisation and legal action to stop child marriage in 31,150 villages.

The campaign prevents child marriage at the community level through awareness and empowerment programs, and by directly stopping planned child marriages. At state and national levels, it advocates for stronger institutions, better infrastructure, free education up to grade 12 or age 18, increased social protection, and robust enforcement of existing laws.

CMFI adopts a multi-pronged approach to systematically reduce the prevalence of child marriage in the country called the PICKET strategy.

PICKET Strategy Encompasses

बाल विवाह के मुद्दे को हल करने के लिए विभिन्न सरकारी विभागों, संस्थानों, वैधानिक निकायों और सामाजिक संगठनों के व्यापक और समन्वित दृष्टिकोण की आवश्यकता है। बाल विवाह मुक्त भारत अभियान 'PICKET' रणनीति पर आधारित है क्योंकि इसके लिए बहु-आयामी दृष्टिकोण की आवश्यकता है।

P - रोकथाम और संरक्षण के लिए नीतिगत हस्तक्षेप

I - बाल विवाह को रोकने के लिए क्षमता और संस्थानों में निवेश

C - स्वास्थ्य, शिक्षा, सामाजिक सुरक्षा, और सामुदायिक भागीदारी का अभिसरण

K - ज्ञान-संचालित निर्णय लेना

E - 18 वर्ष से कम उम्र के सभी बच्चों के लिए शिक्षा एक अधिकार, और कौशल एवं आजीविका प्रशिक्षण