Child marriage among girls in India declined by 69% and that of boys declined by 72%, according to a report by ‘Just Rights for Children’, a network of over 250 NGOs working for child protection.

The report ‘Tipping Point to Zero: Evidence Towards a Child Marriage Free India’ was released during a side event at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Assam leads with an 84% decline in child marriages of girls, followed by Maharashtra and Bihar (70% each), Rajasthan (66%) and Karnataka (55%).

The report listed arrests and FIRs as the strongest deterrents against child marriage, even as it attributes this unprecedented decline to the coordinated action of the Government of India, State governments, and civil society organisations over the past three years.

It also stated that 99% of the res

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