CHILDLINE 1098

Key findings:

• Last year, the CHILDLINE helpline 1098 received a total of 62 lakh calls.
  
  
• The largest number of phone calls were made to seek intervention for abuse cases (17% of the total cases), followed by those pertaining to child labour (13%), education (12%), runaways (11%) and missing children (11%).
  
  
• Under child abuse category, 37% of the complaints were about child marriage, 27% about physical abuse and 13% regarding sexual abuse. The remaining 23% constituted emotional, corporal, domestic and cyber abuse.
  
  
• 35% of the sexual abuse cases were committed by neighbours, 25% by strangers and 11% by family members.