The situation in Modi land is very grim as far as trafficking is concerned says Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi
New Delhi siyasat.net
Expressing serious concern over “increasing child trafficking” in the country with special mention to Gujarat, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has demanded urgent passage of the anti-trafficking Bill in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament.
This, he said, was necessary in the light of the alarming rise in cases of trafficking and forced labour in the country due to further impoverishment of poor families during the pandemic.
The passage of the Bill through both the houses of the Parliament will be fulfilment of the demand of 12 lakh Indians who marched across 22 states and 12,000 km demanding a strong law against trafficking which he led in 2017, a Satyarthi-founded NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) statement said.
To voice their support for the demand, Satyarthi along with several activists, members of the civil society organisations and survivor leaders will be reaching out to Parliamentarians of their respective States soon, the statement added.
Especially referring to Gujarat, considered by the Modi Government as a model for the whole country to emulate, the statement said, the situation in the State “very grim as far as trafficking is concerned”.
The children who go missing are subjected to child trafficking and forced labour. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 1,439 children went missing in Gujarat in 2019, but only 22 cases of child trafficking and 64 cases of child labour were filed, BBA said.
The current pandemic has led to an aggravation of the vulnerabilities of the marginalised children in India. They are now much more prone to various kinds of exploitation especially trafficking and child labour.
BBA claimed it had rescued more than 9,000 trafficked children and 260 traffickers from trains, buses and factories along with law-enforcement agencies since the beginning of the pandemic from across the country. Children have thus become the biggest victim of the pandemic with the trafficking of children becoming much more rampant.
According to the Crime in India 2019 report published by the NCRB, the total number of child victims of trafficking is going up year on year.
It increased from 2,837 in 2018 to 2,914 in 2019, registering a growth of 2.8%. Top six states reporting child trafficking were Rajasthan, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha and Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, BBA said.
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