A 16-year-old girl of Ustapada was to marry a 28-year-old man of the same village while parents of a 15-year-old girl from Mahanadapur in Chhatrapur area were planning to marry her off with a 17-year-old boy yesterday.
After getting information about the proposed marriages, a team of district officials along with police reached the villages and intervened.
"We talked to their parents and convinced them not to marry them off at teenage, which is illegal," said coordinator, Childline (Berhampur) Prabhu Prasad Patra.
Now, parents of the girls and the boys have given undertaking before police that they will wait for the marriage till they reach the marriageable age.
Last month, Childline activists along with police and district child protection unit had stopped a child marriage at BK Saranapur under Khallikote police station.
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