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Raise your voice against child marriage

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CHILD MARIAGES Why is the child marriage taking place?? Why doesn’t the society come out of this concept of getting the children married at an early stage? It is so sad…..Just think for a moment how would we feel if we were the victims of this social evil. But we are the lucky ones. Our fate favored us…But what about our brothers and sisters who are facing this social evil and are getting ensnared under it Child marriage is a violation against human rights. The most conventional way of child marriage is getting the girl child (who is below 18 years) married to an adult man. But in places like Rajasthan the parents of both the girl and boy child fixes the marriage and later on they are married in future. Suppose the family of a girl child is poor and they don’t have any value in the society. What they do is that they fix the marriage of their daughter to a boy child of a royal family, so that they can also get the regal status. This is the aim of child marriages in most places. In In...
                                     MY Bylines Report 1 CURE WITH CARE FOR POOR AT MERCY HOSPITAL Meera V Nair jam.live@hindustantimes.com Jamshedpur: More than four decade-old Mercy hospital is providing succor to the underprivileged section of the populace in the city outskirt in Baridih, Bagunathu, and other nearby areas. The hospital which began in 1962 with only five beds and a small cabin has still maintained its tradition of offering free treatment to people with poor financial background and provide sufficient documentary evidence including income certificates and red cards. The hospital has grown by leaps and bound in more than four decades since it is established. The hospital now houses a small laboratory, OPD, Operation theatre, ICU, Ultrasound, gastroscopic, peritoneal dialysis a...

ARE WE REALLY INDIANS????

                           We say that the transport here is not good.....                             We say that mails never reach their destination on time...                             We say that the government here is not working properly...                              We say and say but never do anything about it.. When it comes for waiting in long ques in government offices, people flip a 50rupees note into the officer's pocket.In India,...