Table 1.

National Plan of Action to Prevent Child Marriages in India, 2012

Goal: Girls and boys in India are free from child marriage and can realize their full potential and live a life of dignity. Approach: Strategic convergent and multi-dimensional initiatives: • Enforce Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 and related laws and policies that can discourage child marriage. • Improve access to quality education and other vocational opportunities. • Initiate programs that enable community mobilization and outreach to change social norms and attitudes. • Build skills and capacities of adolescent girls and boys. • Collect data, initiate research to inform programming and interventions. • Develop monitoring and evaluation systems for measuring outcomes. • Improve co-ordination, communication and monitoring among those involved in the implementation.