84% Of 12 Million Married Children Under 10 Are Hindus
by Devanik Saha
India Spend, 1 June, 2016)
Nearly 12 million Indian children were married before the age of 10 years--84% of them Hindu and 11% Muslim--reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of recently released census data.
To put it in context, this number is equivalent to Jammu & Kashmir’s population.
As
many of 7.84 million (65%) married children were female, reinforcing
the fact that girls are significantly more disadvantaged; eight in 10
illiterate children who were married were also girls. [ . . . ]
