Young girls of Gangavathi taluk still struggle to complete their schooling. Despite a lot of measures and schemes introduced by state and central governments to ensure compulsory education, a lot of girls from Gangavathi taluk of Koppal district in Karnataka are unable to finish their education. At the core of this lie various reasons that […]
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The age-old practice of child marriage is gaining popularity in the district of Koppal. It reports all-time high, 124 cases of child marriage, children as young as 10-years-old are getting married, at an age when they should be with their mother, she becomes the mother. Radhika (name changed) a 16-year-old girl, married off at the […]
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Despite being promised better sanitation facilities, the people of Gangavathi are stripped off of their basic rights. Though sanitation and health care is an important part of living, the locals are robbed of these basic necessities. “Our condition is really poor. The drains and the roads are in a faulty condition and it’s not just the […]
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