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100-day Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: 100-day Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign (GS1/2 · Women and children, 3 December 2025)

What happened

  • The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched a 100-day awareness drive for a child-marriage-free India on 4 December 2025, marking a year of the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign started on 27 November 2024 [PIB].
  • The drive runs from 27 November 2025 to 8 March 2026 in three spells. Spell 1 covers schools and colleges; Spell 2 (January 2026) works with faith leaders and community influencers [PIB].

Background

  • Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, a “child” is a man under 21 or a woman under 18 (Section 2(a)) [India Code].

Why it matters

  • Laws alone have not ended the practice. Campaigns that bring in priests, caterers and community leaders aim at the point where marriages are actually arranged.

How to use this in Mains

GS-I Role of women; GS-II: welfare of vulnerable sections

  1. As per PIB (2025-12-03): the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched a 100-day awareness drive for a child-marriage-free India on 4 December 2025, marking a year of the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign started on 27 November 2024.
  2. Laws alone have not ended the practice. Campaigns that bring in priests, caterers and community leaders aim at the point where marriages are actually arranged.
Quotable data point

The drive runs from 27 November 2025 to 8 March 2026 in three spells. Spell 1 covers schools and colleges; Spell 2 (January 2026) works with faith leaders and community influencers.

PIB: MWCD: 100-day Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign, 3 Dec 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: PCMA 2006. · Mains: social issues, women and children.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

The Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign was launched on

Answer (a) & explanation

PIB.

Practice · UPSC

The 100-day campaign ends on

Answer (c) & explanation

International Women's Day.

Practice · UPSC

Child marriage is governed by

Answer (a) & explanation

General knowledge.

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Official source: PIB: MWCD: 100-day Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign, 3 Dec 2025

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