Baby carrying baby. Not siblings, but a child born by oneself. Such scenes of young children carrying children are common in the hilly areas of the district. Most of the girls in the rural areas are getting married before reaching their age and giving birth to children in childhood.

Mina Vishwakarma of Ghorahi sub-metropolis-1 Harnok is 17 years old. He has a one-year-old son with him. Even though she is not of legal marriage age, she has become a mother in childhood. Although the law stipulates that marriage should not be done before the age of 20, he does not know much about it.

She is surprised to hear that child marriage is legally punishable. "I didn't know that there would be an action for getting married," Mina said, "I got married after my heart was satisfied." Why take action?' She said that it is normal to get married after reaching 15 years of age in the village. It is customary to get married at a young age in the village. Melapat and ghardhanda are more important than reading and writing," she said. After all, after getting married, you have to go to someone else's house, there is a thought that you should get married on time.'

Sita Nepali of Tulsipur sub-metropolitan city-19 also got married at the age of 16. By the time he was 20 years old, his two children had been born. It doesn't really matter what age we get married. Now they get married when they think they can do housework,' she said, 'It's sad when you get married at a young age, but when you don't have a job to read and write, you insist on getting married.' Married. She said that she got married not out of desire but out of compulsion. It is said that instead of studying at home, you should learn to do household chores. After starting to do housework from a young age, the housework also happened quickly," she said.

According to the National Census 2078, 36.9 percent of people in the district got married between the ages of 18 and 20 and 33.7 percent got married between the ages of 15 and 17. 5 thousand 366 have given birth within 19 years. Among the 10 local levels of the district, Banglachuli Rural Municipality, which is located in the hilly areas, has the highest number of 10 percent married under the age of 20.

The International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 and the Act on Children 2075 consider children up to 18 years of age. Article 39 of the Constitution of Nepal 2072 provides for the rights of children. In which sub-section (5) it is mentioned that no child shall be allowed to marry child . In sub-section (10) it is mentioned that the act contrary to sub-section (5) is punishable according to the law .

Section 173 of the Criminal Code Act 2074 has a provision that child marriage should not be performed. In sub-section (1) there is a provision that no one shall marry or arrange marriage before the age of twenty years. Sub-section (2) provides that a marriage contrary to sub-section (1) is automatically annulled. In sub-section (3), there is a provision for a person who commits an offense under sub-section (1) to be imprisoned for up to three years and fined up to thirty thousand rupees .

Article 70 of the Civil Civil (Code) Act, 2074 also has a provision that twenty years should be completed as the age for marriage. Similarly, child marriage is considered as a crime against children in section 66 of the Children Act 2075. In sub-section 3 of section 72, there is a provision of imprisonment up to three years and a fine of up to 75 thousand rupees if such an offense is committed.

Ghorahi sub-metropolitan city of the district has also been declared child-friendly two years ago. In the Child Friendly Local Government Declaration Procedure 2079 issued by the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, there is a provision that the local level can be declared child friendly after completing 51 indicators, including no child marriage. In the Child-Friendly Local Government Implementation Guide 2078 issued by the Ministry, the target has been taken to declare all the local levels of the country child-friendly by 2087 and 2088.