2,600 calls from TN to stop child marriages

Around half of the distress calls to stop child marriages in the past seven months to the national helpline 1098 were from four southern states, reveal statistics. Data received from Childline showed that between January and July, the helpline received more than 14,700 calls — more than 7,500 of which were from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka. The states are among the top five in terms of child marriages reported.

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