Gender Alliance Bihar has launched a mobile application to fight the rampant social evil of child marriage in the state.
The app is called Bandhan Tod.
The app is called Bandhan Tod.
- The app will try to create awareness on resisting child marriage
- It will provide round-the-clock help to adolescent girls saying no to the practice in the form of an SOS button.
- The app offers innovative features that will give girls the confidence to stand up against marriage before they are 18, the legal marriageable age for girls in
- The app is a part of Gender Alliance's strategy to support the state government's efforts to end child marriage and dowry.
Gender Alliance Bihar
- Gender Alliance Bihar is a collective effort of over 270 civil society organisations backed by the UN Population Fund
- It aims at bringing together civil societies, activists, academicians, researchers, media, and others on a common platform to advocate gender equality.
- The alliance focuses on the dire need and urgency to match this commitment with coordinated strategies, action and resources to end child marriages as well as early marriages in Bihar.
- It has also extended support of the hundreds of civil society organisations, that are part of the initiative, to the state government in its fight against child marriage.
