Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday said growing trends of per capita income will help to reduce child marriage in the country.
He made the remark while addressing the 20th session of the Child Parliament titled 'Progress of Digital Bangladesh and Child Protection', held in the city.
Children from 16 disadvantaged and marginalised areas in 15 districts participated in this session.
The minister said, “Child marriage is still going on secretly in our cities and villages. We have to protest against it. I see many protests, when a child gets married, the child resists on his own. I salute them. The field administration is also working to prevent child marriage.”
He said, “There are many in our society whose average monthly income is Tk 5,000, again, there are many whose average income is Tk 5 crore.”
Reducing income discrimination and easy access to digital system for all would help eradication misconception regarding child marriage in the society, Mannan added.
