When other Indian cities are gearing for IT hub, Technology park, software centre or Knowledge centre, Guwahati set to become a Prostitute hub in India. Consequently adding more hardships and tarnishing the entire North East India's image, who are sidelined as sex elements by mainland India. Trafficking of women from the North East has increased considerably in recent years with Guwahati being identified as the main transit point for sending girls to brothels in Siliguri, Kolkata and New Delhi.
A study conducted by an NGO, Global Organisation for Life Development (GOLD), found that 48 percent of sex workers at Khalpara in Siliguri were from Assam and three percent from the other Northeastern states. Traffickers ensnare an estimated 500 women, including minors, every year from Assam alone and the situation might actually worsen in the next few years, Assam's inspector general of police (CID) G Bhuyan said.
"We have to receive complaints to make arrests as it is difficult to just go and arrest somebody without proper information. We send teams to different parts of the country--mainly to New Delhi, Haryana, Mumbai and Siliguri--as and when we get information on trafficked women," he added.
Traffickers generally target girls from poor families living along the rivers who are displaced by regular floods, take them outside the state and force them into prostitution. Bhuyan said human trafficking is more serious where minor girls are involved and NGOs should focus on how to stop them from falling victims.
President of Impulse NGO network, Meghalaya Hasina Kharbhigh was reported to have said that they are organising consultations among the stakeholders to build a framework to tackle the problem. She pointed out that besides sexual exploitation, children and young women are also trafficked for cheap labour and organ transplants. "Prevention of trafficking must be the prime objective of the stakeholders but what was equally important was the rehabilitation of the rescued victims," she added.
2 comments:
i think poverty $ wish 4 high luxury life at a nominaL COST ends them up in doing so.
Evry1 sud aware about dt otherwise we wil nt b caled as human in near future.
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