Out of that, 601 children who passed away were born to minor mothers, the report submitted by the State government said.
The figures formed part of a report submitted by the State in compliance with the order dated March 14, 2022 by which the High Court had directed district collectors and magistrate across Maharashtra to conduct a survey and identify areas where the instances of child marriages are prevalent.
The survey was supervised by a 3-member committee of Rajendra Bharud, IAS Commissioner of Tribal Research & Training Institute, GV Deore, Deputy Commissioner of Integrated Child Development Services and Dr. DG Chauhan, Assistant Director of State Health Department.
It included figures collected for a span of 3 years from 2019 to 2022 from 16 tribal districts of Maharashtra.
The survey was conducted by Anganwadi Sevikas and ASHA sevikas.
The report further said that over 1.36 lakh children are affected by the malnutrition in the State out of which over 14,000 children were born to mothers who were minors.
Source: Barandbench
