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Campaign to shunt out children branding

To protect children from the lethal superstition of daam (branding with hot iron rod) for treating ailments, Child Help Line is going to launch a campaign against the primitive practice. Under the initiative, prominent religious gurus and saints will be approached with a request to spread awareness against daam, a supersticion mostly observed in southern region of Rajasthan.

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To protect children from the lethal superstition of daam (branding with hot iron rod) for treating ailments, Child Help Line is going to launch a campaign against the primitive practice. Under the initiative, prominent religious gurus and saints will be approached with a request to spread awareness against daam, a supersticion mostly observed in southern region of Rajasthan.

“These gurus have a number of disciples who have belief in them and follow their words. Generations widely follow these practices and the intention of the camp is to weed out such supersticion,” Parmesh Patidar, district coordinator of Child Help Line, Banswara told DNA. “We have met some influential saints of the region including Swami Achyutanand of Beneshwar Dham and Mahant of Gotiya Amba Dhaam. We have urged them to address daam issue and its ill effects in their preachings,” he added.

Child Help Line workers have also written letters to District Child Protection Unit, Superintendent of Police, Child Welfare Committee and president of Juvenile Justice Board to make serious efforts for the protection of children from the daam. “We have requested police to take action against ‘self proclaimed’ witch doctors who brand kids with hot iron rod in the name of treatment,” said Patidar. Banswara Child Help Line has come up with the campaign because cases of branding child with hot rod are continuously being reported in the region. Recently, a 14-month-old girl was branded in Navghara area of Anandpuri block as she was suffering from fever and under the influence of superstition, a witch doctor branded her with a hot iron rod on her back and made a two inch long daam. This was the 7th such case within six month in the area.

The Child Help Line team also met with the families from Chhoti Sarwan, Kushalgarh and Sajjangarh whose kids have been branded by witch doctors in last few days. “We tried to make them aware that in case of illness they should go to a doctor instead of a witch doctor,” Patidar Said.

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