Desperate to meet the medical expenses of her ailing mother, Ruma fell into a trap laid by a human trafficking network and ended up in a brothel.
Desperate to meet the medical expenses of her ailing mother, Ruma fell into a trap laid by a human trafficking network and ended up in a brothel. Fortunately for her, an anti-human trafficking squad rescued her and she has since been rehabilitated as a security guard in a hotel in Ranchi.
Ruma is one among hundreds of tribal girls who have been rescued over the years from various places across the country. "A few of them were married off, some have been employed in hotels and security agencies while others are waiting for similar opportunities, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, the state Coordinator of Action Against Trafficking Sexual Exploitation of Children and Women in India (ATSEC), said.
Saying this year alone they resuced 2,800 children hailing from Jharkhand from various parts of the state and the country, he said industrialists like Arcelor-Mittal and Jindal Steel were helping a lot in this endeavour. The Criminal Investigation Department is also taking initiatives to check the despicable act in the state.
The Additional Director-General of Police (CID), GS Rath, said that the traffickers exploit the children sexually and use them as bonded labourers.
''There are many chains inter-linking the entire human trafficking network that focuses on poor families...first trapping a member or a close relative of a family, alluring them with jobs and taking away a boy or a girl,'' Rath said. The human trafficking network, Rath said, has different layers starting from surveying groups.
"The surveyors give feedback of the details and condition of a particular family to their next link which traps the children with false promises and monetary allurements," the police officer said. A counter surveying team by the NGOs and others combatting the trafficking could benefit along with the help of statutory bodies, he said while singling out Jharkhand's Khunti district as one of the places vulnerable to trafficking.
Explaining ways to prevent and protect children and prosecute traffickers in order to rein in trafficking, Rath said thrust and focus should be on areas affected by poverty.
"Statutory bodies can take preventive steps while public-private partnership will help rehabilitate the victims and interface with rescued victims will help zeroing in on traffickers, leading to their prosecution," he said and stressed on busting every link of human traffickers.
Dwelling on building public private partnership (PPP) to fight the scourge, Willem Grimminck, the Advisor of ATSEC, underscored the importance of research which could help understand trends and patterns of trafficking.
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