India has 30 percent of the world's births, 20 percent of the world's maternal deaths, and 25 percent of the world's child deaths.

A child is born every 2 seconds in India.

More than half of India's children are malnourished.

Only 15 to 20 percent of Indian children grow to their full potential.

40 percent of the elderly live below the poverty line and 90 percent are neither covered by any state pension nor have any family to take care of them.

There are more than 126 million child laborers in India.

The total population of India consists of 82 percent Hindus, 12 percent Muslims, 2.5 percent Christians, 2 percent Sikhs, and 1.5 percent other groups including Budhist, Jain, Parsi etc.