Every claim we have checked.

• NCRB Crime in India records rape as a counted offence. Recent all-India rates are on the order of about 4 recorded rapes per lakh women, not 6,000 per lakh.
• Six in 100 women would be 6%. That is three orders of magnitude above the official recorded rate.
• Under-reporting is real. NFHS and NCRB both say so in different ways. Under-reporting does not turn 4 per lakh into 6 per 100 as an official fact.

NCRB, Crime in India

• UDISE+ girls’ secondary dropout in the latest published year used in this file is about 8%, not 45%.
• Marriage and housework appear among reasons in some education studies and household questions. A reason-code is not the dropout rate.
• The Ministry of Education’s official dropout series is UDISE+. It does not print 45% of girls leaving because of marriage or housework.

UDISE+Ministry of Education

• NCRB publishes recorded sexual offences. By definition those are the reported cases, not the unreported share.
• NFHS publishes some questions on whether violence was told to anyone. Those disclosure items are not a 99% official dark figure for rape, molestation and sexual violence together.
• Research on under-reporting exists. It does not become a 99% official rate.

NCRB, Crime in IndiaNFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

• The legal minimum age of marriage is not 23. Under current law it is 18 for women and 21 for men.
• Exam age limits are set paper by paper in NTA, UPSC and SSC notifications. They are not a marriage-age rule, and they are not “boys may repeat after the limit, women must marry at 23”.
• PIB and the statute book are the official sources for marriage age. Exam information bulletins are the official sources for attempt limits.

National Testing AgencyPress Information Bureau

• Sex-ratio-at-birth problems are documented in SRS, Census and NFHS. That harm is real.
• A current official annual total of “around 4 lakh girls killed before they are born” is not what SRS or Census publish as that sentence.
• Missing-women estimates in research papers use models and older years. They are not this year’s official count in the form spoken on stage.

Ministry of Statistics and Programme ImplementationNFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

• NFHS-5 publishes specific violence and safety questions for defined groups of women, not “80% of women face harassment”.
• NCRB Crime in India publishes recorded crimes against women. Recorded crime is not an 80% prevalence of harassment.
• Some local or campus surveys have reported high harassment shares in their sample. A sample is not all women in India.

NFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family WelfareNCRB, Crime in India

• NFHS-5 reports that about 29% of ever-married women aged 18–49 have experienced spousal violence. That is the official cell.
• The official universe is ever-married women 18–49, and the act is spousal violence — not “29–30% of women” and not all physical violence by anyone.
• Using the NFHS number without the frame makes a real statistic misleading.

NFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

• PLFS does not publish that 50% of women reject work because of safety.
• UDISE+ and the Ministry of Education do not publish that 50% of women reject education because of safety.
• No MOSPI or NFHS table in this file is an official ₹17,000 extra per year spent on safety by the average Indian woman.
• Safety costs and restricted mobility appear in research and in some survey items. Those are not these two precise official numbers.

MOSPI, Periodic Labour Force SurveyNFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family WelfareMinistry of Education

• NFHS publishes mobility questions — for example whether a woman can go to the market, a health facility or outside the village alone — for defined ages and marital statuses.
• “60% of our girls cannot go outside the house alone” is not that table. “Girls” and “outside the house” are not the NFHS wording or universe.
• Some NFHS mobility items show large restrictions. They must be quoted with the question and the denominator.

NFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

• NFHS asks who owns the house and land, and whether ownership is alone or jointly, for women in a defined sample.
• “8% of women have independently owned property” is not the published NFHS ownership line for all women and all property.
• Joint title, house-only, land-only and “alone” are different official cells. The sentence names none of them.

NFHS-5, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

• The Time Use Survey 2019 shows a large unpaid domestic and care-work gap between men and women in India. That direction is official.
• TUS does not publish this exact pair — 5.5 hours for women 15–29 versus 30 minutes for “the average boy” in the same house — as a released cell.
• Age cuts, “boy” versus man, and “the same house” are not how the published TUS tables are written.

MOSPI, Time Use Survey