There is a need to implement a convergent strategy:

♤ Law enforcement: Capacity-building on laws, support mechanisms such as a child marriage telephone hotline.

♤ Girls’ empowerment: Life skills, protection skills.

♤ Community mobilization: Working with influential leaders, oaths and pledges, counselling, folk and traditional media.

♤ Promoting convergence of sectors at all levels, in particular with education and social protection schemes and programmes.

♤ Building a social movement on the lines of Bachpan Bachao Aandolan which would emphasize on an IEC campaign and generating community support against such practices.

9. What are Personal Law Boards? Are their decisions binding on citizens? How can the incongruence between the principles followed by them and those of the common law courts be reconciled? Discuss.Answer:10. Exclusion, humiliation-subordination and exploitation are all equally important in defining the phenomenon of untouchability. Explain. Give an account of the provisions in the Indian Constitution and the steps taken by the government to compensate for past and present caste discriminations.Answer: