The report also recommended that a special cell be constituted in the ministry to bring all agencies together, co-ordinate between the states and the Centre, channelise NGOs, use resources judiciously and study the causes of the trafficking.
A parliamentary standing committee has rapped the Ministry of Tribal Affairs over its inability to stop the increasing cases of trafficking of tribal girls. The Lok Sabha committee on empowerment of women, chaired by former union minister, BJP MP Bijoya Chakravarty, in its ninth report on the empowerment of tribal women, said that the ministry needs to be "more dynamic and proactive to put an end to the sufferings of tribal women/girls caused by ever-growing cases of human trafficking in the country".
The report also recommended that a special cell be constituted in the ministry to bring all agencies together, co-ordinate between the states and the Centre, channelise NGOs, use resources judiciously and study the causes of the trafficking. The report also said that the committee should become "a response centre for the victims of trafficking in the country". It has also recommended that a dedicated web portal be constituted as well.
The committee sharply criticised the government on the lack of any data on the issue. "Adding insult to the injury, the Ministry has gone ahead stating before the Committee that there is no reliable record available to indicate that tribal women, trafficked from tribal belts to cities, are engaged as maid servants, etc., when our newspapers and electronic media are flooded with such stories," read the report, adding that it is dismayed at the Centre's insensitivity over the issue.
The report also criticised the government over the data with the National Crime Records Bureau, which cite the number of cases in two-digit numbers, while data with NGOs put it at "tens of thousands".
Pulling up the police, too, for their inactivity and procedural delays, the Committee has asked for a "special cell" to be put up under the Station House Officer (SHO) in each police station under tribal-dominated areas, while sending routine reports to the DGP, NHRC and state commissions.
Taking up the issue of surrendered Naxalite women in insurgency-hit areas, the committee has asked for rehabilitation schemes for them and that they be engaged as midday-meal cooks, in anganwadi centres, as midwives, etc. "The Committee is also aware that a large chunk of extremist foot-soldiers are women and many of them are exploited, abused and later abandoned by insurgent groups," the report noted.
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