4528 ISSN 2286-4822 www.euacademic.org EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. II, Issue 3/ June 2014 Impact Factor: 3.1 (UIF) DRJI Value: 5.9 (B+) Socio-Demographic and Health Conditions of the Commercial Sex Workers and their Children of Pune, India V. P. KHAIRKAR Department of Geography University of Pune, Pune India RASHID A. WANI Amar Singh College, Gogji Bagh Srinagar, Kashmir India JALINDAR Department of Geography University of Pune, Pune India Abstract: Sex work in India has been done from historical times. Children of sex workers face discrimination and challenges in accessing their basic rights. These children are standing on the lowest strata of the social ladder and their problems are grossly ignored. A community based cross-sectional study was conducted from 1 April 2012 to 15 August 2012 in Budhwar Peth, a well known red light area of Pune city. A well designed Questionnaire was employed to get the desirable information from the sampled individuals of children and women. Also, 292 children of sex workers enrolled in the institute of Janiv have also been taken into account. Findings suggested that the condition of the children of CSW is terrible as 60% of their parents are illiterate, 40% of their children have died from various types of diseases whereas 20% have died due to malnutrition. They were not found with significant permanent diseases but unfortunately majority of them do not consult doctors at all which is why 20 percent of their