Archive · 6 Dec 2025
India Targets 14 High-Risk Districts to End Child Marriage
Just Rights for Children (JRC) has started a big project to stop child marriages in one lakh villages within a year.
These villages are in 14 districts in Karnataka, India, where child marriages happen a lot.
The JRC works with many groups and has already stopped 5,000 child marriages in Karnataka and 100,000 nationwide in the last year.
The Indian government is also helping with a 100-day action plan to spread awareness and involve communities.
They want to make India child marriage-free by 2030.
Just Rights for Children (JRC) aims to make one lakh villages child marriage free within a year.
14 high-risk districts in Karnataka have been chosen for intensive intervention.
The JRC has prevented 5,000 child marriages in Karnataka and 100,000 nationwide in the last year.
The Indian government has launched a 100-day action plan as part of the 'Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat' campaign.
The campaign focuses on awareness generation, engaging religious places and service providers, and community-level engagement.
- Who
- Just Rights for Children (JRC) and the Government of India
- What
- Launch of an intensive drive to make one lakh villages child marriage free
- When
- Coinciding with the first anniversary of the 'Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat' campaign
- Where
- 14 high-risk districts in Karnataka, identified as high-prevalence areas under the National Family Health Survey V (2019-21)
- Why
- To accelerate India's goal to become child marriage free by 2030 and to build a child marriage-free India
- Organization
- Just Rights for Children (JRC)
- Goal
- Make one lakh villages child marriage free in one year
- High-Risk Districts in Karnataka
- 14
- Child Marriages Prevented in Karnataka (Last Year)
- 5,000
- National Child Marriages Prevented (Last Year)
- 100,000
- Karnataka Child Marriage Prevalence (NFHS V)
- 21.2%
- National Child Marriage Prevalence (NFHS V)
- 23.3%
- High-Prevalence Districts in Karnataka
- Bijapur, Bagalkot, Yadgir, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Gadag, Chikkaballapura, Koppal, Kolar, Tumkur
- Campaign Duration
- 100 days (concludes on International Women's Day, 8th March, 2026)
- 3-Phase Plan Focus
- Awareness generation, religious places and service providers, community-level engagement