Kolkata, May 27 -- With a view to preventing child marriage further in the state, the West Bengal government has laid emphasis on building awareness among boys besides girls about the harmful effects of this social practice, a minister said on Tuesday.
"It's not the girls alone; boys also have to be educated about the ill effects of early marriage, and they should be demotivated from marrying before their legal age of marriage too," Dr Shashi Panja, Minister of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, said at a State Level Consultation on Adolescent Empowerment here.
The programme was attended by government officials from various departments working in the districts to end child marriage.
Panja urged the officials gathered to shar...