Children form 40% of India's population, and yet they are treated as non entities - their being is rarely acknowledged. This is even more so politically - as they do not have a say in determining who forms government or frames policies on their behalf. And hence their concerns are invisible - rarely usnderstood in their totality.

• 40% of India's population is below the age of 18 years which at 400 million is the world's largest child population.
• At 17 million, India is home to world's largest population of child labourers (this is the official figure, activists claim the actual number is closer to four fold).
• Less than half of India's children between the age 6 and 14 go to school.
• One in every ten children is disabled in India.
• Only 38% of India's children below the age of 2 years are immunized.
• Almost one in every five children in India below the age of 14 suffers from diarrhea, an easily preventable disease.