Student Police Cadets of Vithura school in Kerala capital pilots global campaign against child marriage, trafficking
The Hindu
The ‘Zero tolerance to child marriage’ campaign is being piloted in India and Ghana in Africa. In India, it is being implemented in the Kerala first
The Student Police Cadets (SPC) of Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Vithura, have come together to pilot an international campaign against child marriage and child trafficking.
It is estimated that there were 82 child marriages during the lockdown alone in the State. The Vithura school’s SPC unit is rolling out the three-month campaign as part of an international initiative supported by Mission Better Tomorrow, a global platform for SPC, and Our Responsibility to Children (ORC) initiatives The Bridge Institute, a global non-governmental organisation, and the Kalinga Fellowship, a programme for combating trafficking.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.