'Ghasphool' foils another child marriage bid

Another girl of Nandail Pilot Girls' High School in the district has been saved from early marriage, thanks to the prompt step by 'Ghasphool', a seven-member team working for creating awareness against child marriage.

Informed that Class VII student Monwara Begum, 12, was scheduled to be married on Sunday, Ghashphool members told it to their school headmaster and went to Monwara's house on Saturday.

Failing to persuade the girl's parents not to marry her, they contacted the headmaster who informed the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of the matter.

The UNO asked Md Ataur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Nandail Police Station, to see it.

The OC called the girl's father Abdus Salam, a marginal farmer, and managed to make him realise the bad effects of child marriage.

Earlier on April 11, Ghasphool members foiled the bid to marry off a Class IX student of their school.