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Meanwhile, Voluntary health association of Punjab filed a petition in the Supreme Court regarding Sex-determination test practice. I filed an intervening application which was accepted by the apex court. After the approval, many others filled their intervening applications. I argued for my own petition. The original petition demanded strengthening of the system for Proper implementation of the PCPNDT act to curb the reducing population of girls. In my application I demanded on ground reports from every state regarding the implementation and the number of girls, government supervision on companies which produce sonography machines, policy decision should be taken for the use of these machines, there should be a limit set to the number of machines to be used as per the population of that area, Judiciary should also overlook the usage of these machines, and the crimes registered under the act to be judged within a year. On the basis of this judgement, a high court committee overlooks the law implementation process. We were continuously learning more things regarding child marriages and our work in Jalna' taught us many aspects about it. Talukas of 'Bhokardan, Ambad and Badnapur had a 70% rate of Child Marriages. Also in Khultabad Taluka, the number of women dying during pregnancy was the highest and the major reason behind it was child marriage. To encourage more government officials to work for the abolition of child-marriages, we awarded Mrs.Varsha Powar by giving her the 'Savitribai Phule Struggle award' for her honest and continuous work being the district's deputy functional officer. We also awarded KailasBabu Kolte-Patil for arranging community marriages for various communities in a single hall as a sign of unity. At Shirur-Kasara our work had taken good pace, we had sent all the reports to the UNFPA. On 28th August 2016, we arranged a meeting with Asha workers had to decide whether to start working in ShirurKasara for stopping Child marriages. Everyone agreed! Because nearly 90% of the women workers got married when they were very young. We started showing short-films to the people at the fodder camp, I used to personally talk to them, used to give speeches as well. People started realising the problem. Fortunately for us, the drought situation was over by August. It rained heavily in August, so much that all the lakes and rivers
