Shillong, May 28 : Human trafficking is a $ 9million business per year and the same amount of money is spent on the detection and rehabilitation of the victims by various governments, says a United Nations report.
Despite the efforts, trafficking of women and children is on the rise and the Northeast corner of the country is no different.
The chief of Women’s Rights and Human Security Unity, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Delhi, Archana Tamang, today called for better co-ordination between police and NGOs for effective detection of such cases.
Addressing a meeting, organised by Impulse, an NGO, for law enforcement agencies, the state social welfare department and NGOs at the police headquarters here, Tamang said the number of victims rescued was much less than those trafficked and co-ordination was essential to detect the cases.
The commissioner and secretary of Meghalaya social welfare department, A. Bhalla, said several cases of trafficking went unreported. Officials of the department admitted that the exact number of victims of human trafficking from the state was yet to be ascertained. They said the department would carry out a survey with the help of Indian Council of Social Science and Research from June.
The officials also promised to look into the demand for setting up a home for trafficked women and children and stressed the need to launch an awareness programme and activate the existing anti-trafficking committee.
East Khasi Hills superintendent of police A.R. Mawthoh pointed out several loopholes in the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act.
He advocated stringent punitive action and bail provisions and women judge to look into the cases.
Telegraph India
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