Dang, Jan. 2 -- A year ago, two teenage couples from Tulsipur Secondary School in Shantinagar Rural Municipality got married-despite the school administration's repeated attempts to stop them.

Gobinda Bahadur Gharti, principal of the secondary school, said that he personally tried various methods to keep the children from getting married. "I even went up to their home and tried to convince the parents, but my efforts were in vain," Gharti told the Post. "They got married anyway. One couple has given birth to a baby already as well, and the new mother has dropped out of school."

In another incident, a few months ago, a female student from the same school eloped with a man from Kohalpur. Gharti said he immediately informed the police but ...