Tanti lives and works at Letekujan, a tea plantation in Jorhat district in Assam, North East India. To get treatment, he travelled to Jorhat city – about 23 km away from Letekujan.

There are 35 tea plantations in the district of Sonitpur alone and more than 800 in Assam, all in need of sustained effort to their health facilities, he says. There has been some progress.

Police in Assam say young girls from tea plantations are easy targets. They live in poverty, have very little education, and their parents are often saddled with debt.

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Police in Assam say young girls from tea plantations are easy targets. They live in poverty, have very little education, and their parents are often saddled with debt.