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How screen addiction reshaping childhood
The New Indian Express Kochi
|July 27, 2025
INDIA’s digital revolution, while transformative, is exacting a growing toll on its youngest users.
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With over 70 crore internet users and 60 crore smartphones in circulation, a creeping crisis is emerging—one driven by excessive screen time and digital dependency, especially among children and adolescents.
Though India lacks a unified nationwide study on digital addiction across age groups, a patchwork of regional and thematic studies reveal alarming trends. In Maharashtra, for example, 22% of children aged 9 to 17 reportedly spend more than six hours a day on screens. Nationwide, over 60% in the same age bracket log at least three hours daily on mobile games or social media.
This story is from the July 27, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kochi.
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