NFHS has spoken that there has been an increase in cases of domestic violence against women.

NFHS has spoken that, there has been an increase in cases of domestic violence against women.

According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), the worst cases of domestic violence against women are in Karnataka, Assam, Mizoram, Telangana and Bihar. There is a National Family Health Survey conducted in 22 states and union territories of the country. The survey covers 6.1 lakh households across the country, including information on population, health, family planning and nutritional standards through interviews.

According to the National Family Health Survey, about 44.4 per cent of women in the age group of 18 to 49 in Karnataka have suffered domestic violence by their husbands, compared to around 20.6 per cent of such women in the state during the 2015-2016 survey.

According to data from the National Family Health Survey, nearly 40 percent of women in Bihar suffered physical and sexual violence by their husbands, 39 percent in Manipur, 36.9 percent in Telangana, 32 percent in Assam and 30 percent in Andhra Pradesh. Succumbed to This NFHS survey recorded an increase in domestic violence cases in seven states and union territories compared to the previous NFHS survey. These include Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

In addition, according to the NFHS survey, there has been an increase in the percentage of harassment of girls and women between the ages of 18 and 29 in nine states and union territories, saying that they faced sexual violence by the age of 18, including Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.