: The social welfare department has submitted the proposed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for addressing the issue of early marriages and violence against women and children in the state.

Informing this after chairing a consultative meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday, adviser to the social welfare department Paul Lyngdoh said, “As far as the plan of action of the government is concerned, today we are in a position, we have already submitted our proposed standard operating procedures (SOPs) whereby the various implications of POCSO and the fact that there is rampant premature marriages of adolescents and minors, how do we work out a balance between what is being practiced and what the law of the land says, how do we come up with balancing act between the two.”

“We have submitted o

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