With the aim of eradicating child marriage, Nayagarh, a tiny Odisha district, has adopted a unique initiative by scrupulously recording information on all adolescent girls in the district.
From birth registration date to Aadhaar number and from family details to skill training, information of 48,642 adolescent girls can be found in registers named – Aliva.
Nayagarh, with a population of 9,62,789 has a skewed sex ratio at 855. Child marriages in isolated locations of the district are still considered a part of their social life.
