Mangaluru: “A healthy society can be formed if child marriage is stopped everywhere. It is one of the worst practices that society have,” said MLA J R Lobo.

He was speaking after inaugurating ban on child marriage awareness programme organised by Karnataka state children rights commission, DK Administration, ZP, district children protection unit and Childline- 1098, on Saturday at Badriya School.

“Both the men and women must have knowledge about what is marriage. Marriage requires physical development along with mental development to live with each other. The government has fixed a age for the marriage for both men and women,” he said.

Senior Civil Judge Mallanagouda Patil, Abdullateef, P C Hadhir and others were present.