Children attend ‘Bala Panchayat’ meet, discuss ways to deal with child labour, child marriages

A meeting of ‘Bala Panchayats’ expressed concern that many children were getting addicted to mobile phones while in some villages child marriages were going on unchecked.

“There were problems such as ganja peddling, child marriages, school dropouts and child labour,” said the children, members of the ‘Bala Panchayats’, who gathered here on Saturday.