A micro survey on child labour and marriage has found that if access to government schools are available in villages, girls can continue their education instead of getting married at the age of 18. The survey was conducted by Littles, a Madurai-based NGO with the support of CRY and Tamil Nadu Sama Kalvi Iyakkam in the three districts- Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri and Ramnathapuram.
The survey has found that majority of girl children say that they would have continued their education even after marriage if they had access to a government school. The survey also detected that children sometimes drop out of schools and become child labourers due to unfriendly teachers and lack of proper facilities that encourages them to continue in schools. The study has recommended to make definitions of children uniform as persons under 18 years of age and the Right to Education Act be amended to ensure education to children upto 18 years of age.
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