National Family Health Survey
March 30 , 2019
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- Tripura ranks second in the list of states with child marriages among the girls between the age of 15 and 19.
- The study titled ‘Young Lives’ has been prepared from data taken from National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-2016.
- Tripura occupies 21.6 percent which is significantly higher than the national average of 11.9 percent of child marriage incidents.
- The four districts include Dhalai, South Tripura, North Tripura, and West Tripura have the highest number of child marriage.
- It is a collaborative research project coordinated by a team based at the University of Oxford.
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