Ganjam

In Odisha's Ganjam district, the administration stopped a child marriage of a 15-year-old girl with a man (30) in Patapur. The marriage of the girl, who studies in class VIII, was fixed on November 29. ''We convinced the parents of both the girl and the man not to marry her till she attains the age of 18,'' said Sanakhemundi Tahasildar Srinibash Behera, on November 30.