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Jharkhand has the highest percentage of underage girls getting revealed a survey by the Union Home Ministry.

The survey was conducted in 2020 and the report was published late last month. Jharkhand and West Bengal are the only two states in the country where more than half of the women are married before attaining the age of 21 years.

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India has achieved landmark achievements in further reduction of child mortality rates, according to Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.

The Ministry reported that the Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) for the country has declined 3 points as the mortality declined from 35 per 1000 live births in 2019 to 32 per 1000 live births in 2020, varying from 36 in rural areas to 21 in urban areas, , healthcare, Infant Mortality, infant mortality rates, Mansukh Mandaviya

A significant rural-urban divide in the fertility rate could be seen in the country in a latest data that says the fertility rate varies from 53.7 in urban areas to 73.7 in rural areas while at the national level, 67 children were born to every ...

In a significant milestone, India has achieved landmark achievement in further reduction of child mortality rates.As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2020 released by Registrar General of India (RGI), the country has ...

Researchers have used government data to find that nine million girls went ‘missing’ in 20 years in India.