The practice of underage marriage is
acute in the tribal-dominated southern and southwestern parts of Odisha,
but interventions on the ground are planting the seeds of change among
adolescent girls and their parents
The pensive look on the face of three-year-old Devati Durua
of Chanchraguda village in Koraput district could very well change to
distress if she is married before she comes of age at 18. That remains a
distinct possibility in the underdeveloped area where indigenous people
are known to widely practice child marriage.
