Child Multidimensional Poverty and its Determinants in Rural Farm-Households of Garo Hills, Meghalaya

The present study attempts to assess child multidimensional poverty in rural farm households and find out its determinants. The study was conducted in six randomly selected villages of Tura and Ampati sub divisions of Garo Hills, Meghalaya. From each household child aged between of 5–14 years were considered either one or two children from each household was selected for the study, A total 80 children from 60 households were selected as subjects of the study. Six dimensions and seventeen indicators of child poverty were used for the study. Average child deprivation score of the study area was worked out to be 34 percent. The indicators in which the majority of the children were deprived were safe drinking water (87.50%), cooking fuel (81.80%), housing (71.25%), and child labour (66.25%). Parents’ education, parents’ age, family income, land holding and livelihood diversification were found be important determinants of child poverty.