{"id":28276,"date":"2026-11-13T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28276"},"modified":"2026-11-13T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:39:50","slug":"bal-vivah-mukt-bharat-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bal-vivah-mukt-bharat-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat\u2019 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Campaign<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Campaign<\/strong> was launched by the <strong>Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, on 27 November 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It seeks to engage multiple stakeholders in a collective effort to <strong>eliminate child marriage in India<\/strong> through awareness generation, community mobilisation and effective enforcement of existing laws.<\/li>\n<li>The campaign focuses on <strong>high-burden districts<\/strong> where child marriage prevalence is high. Initially, it identified seven high-burden states: <strong>West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Tripura, Assam and Andhra Pradesh<\/strong>. Subsequent government updates identified 257 high-burden districts based on National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) data.<\/li>\n<li>It calls upon every State and Union Territory to prepare an action plan to reduce child marriage rates and work towards making India child-marriage-free by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>According to government data, the prevalence of child marriage in India declined from <strong>47.4% in 2006 to 23.3% in 2019\u201321<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Objectives of Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Campaign<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminate child marriage in India through awareness generation, community participation and effective implementation of existing laws.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage parents, families, community leaders and religious institutions to take collective action against child marriage.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen the role of Child Marriage Prohibition Officers (CMPOs) in preventing child marriages.<\/li>\n<li>Promote the education, empowerment and protection of adolescent girls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Portal (Child Marriage Free Bharat Portal)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A key feature of the initiative is the launch of the <strong>Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat Portal<\/strong>, a digital platform to <strong>raise awareness, report child marriage cases and monitor progress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Its major features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Online complaint registration:<\/strong> Citizens can register complaints related to child marriage through the portal. These complaints are directed to the concerned CMPOs for timely intervention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monitoring of CMPOs:<\/strong> The portal facilitates the monitoring of Child Marriage Prohibition Officers by strengthening supervision and accountability mechanisms to ensure their active role in preventing child marriages and supporting affected individuals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registration of CMPOs:<\/strong> States and Union Territories are required to register their appointed CMPOs on the portal to facilitate real-time monitoring of cases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Central-level monitoring:<\/strong> Nodal officers are assigned at the Centre to monitor the portal and oversee its implementation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public awareness:<\/strong> The portal enhances public access to information and enables better communication, coordination and support for child marriage prevention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>100-Day Special Campaign<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>100-Day Special Campaign<\/strong>, launched on 4 December 2025, further intensified nationwide efforts to eliminate child marriage.<\/li>\n<li>It involved awareness and mobilisation activities through educational institutions, religious institutions, marriage service providers, Gram Panchayats and Municipal Wards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat\u2019 Campaign seeks to engage multiple stakeholders in a collective effort to eliminate child marriage in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general-studies","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133025,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions\/133025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}