Eight-year-old Tilti from the tea-producing district of Sivasagar, loves mathematics but she is not going to school any more. "I stay at home to look after my two-year-old brother Jesoi. My parents work in a tea garden. I fear they may marry me off soon," she said. Child marriages in tea gardens are common. Hundreds of children living in the 800 or more tea gardens of the state, stare at an uncertain future. A recent study by the Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) found that at least 75% of the children in tea gardens are school drop-outs.

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