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Child rights: need to sensitise society

KURNOOL: Collector Mukesh Kumar Meena called for sensitisation of society over child rights.

Addressing the 20th Child Rights Convention Day here on Friday, he said child marriages are a serious social problem even now in villages.

Only Kerala achieved the highest literacy rate among women and topped the human development index.

He said the elders should be first exposed to world wide trends on child rights rather than the children since it was the elders who had to implement the rights.

He called upon parents in rural areas to send their children to school and said those parents who tried to trample upon the rights of the children without giving them education would be punished.

Superintendent of Police Ch. Srikanth felt that uneducated children are a burden on the society.

Sudhakar, secretary of Legal Services Authority and judge, Mangamma, Chairman, CWC, Meenakshi Devi, Regional Deputy Director, Women and Child Welfare Department, Naik, Field Publicity Officer, K.V. Ramakrishna Sastry of SIRD and Joshi of Donbosco and Prasad, Unicef, were present.

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