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India has 2.8 million sex workers, 36 % are kids
Monday, 19th April 2010
There are about 2.8 million prostitutes in India out of which 36 per cent are children, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
The common factors for entry into prostitution have been economic distress, growing consumerism, illiteracy, lack of vocational skills, migration, ill-treatment by parents and desertion by spouse, according to a study on girls and women in prostitution conducted between 2002-2004 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Publication : PTI News
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