[ad_1]
NEW DELHI: The Central government has decided to provide financial assistance to states and UTs in border areas to set-up protection and rehabilitation homes for survivors of trafficking, particularly minor girls and young women.
According to the ministry of women and child development, to combat the problem of child trafficking in border areas, the government has decided to bolster infrastructure for child protection in these areas.
India is both a source and destination of trafficking. According to officials the source countries are Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar from where women and girls are getting trafficked in the guise of providing better life, jobs and a good living condition in India. A majority of them are minor girls or women of younger age, who after their arrival in India are sold and forced into commercial sex work.
These girls and women often reach major cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad from where they are taken out of the country mainly in middle east and southeast Asia.
“This is the reason why, the bordering states to these countries need to be more vigilant and have adequate facilities to provide relief and rehabilitation services to the victims of trafficking,” officials said.
According to officials the protection and rehabilitation homes that will be set up in border areas for survivors will provide services like shelter, food, clothing, counselling, primary health facilities and other daily requirements.
On the measures already being taken, according to officials, the government has provided funding to all states /UTs under Nirbhaya Fund to set up and strengthen anti human trafficking units in every district of the country. In addition, funding has also been provided for AHTUs in border guarding forces such as Border Security Force and Sashastra Seema Bal. As on date, 788 AHTUs including 30 in border guarding forces are functional.
Recognising the need to focus on extending long term protection and support to survivors of trafficking in border areas, the WCD minister Smriti Irani had on Sunday requested the members of the Child Welfare Committees, District Child Protection Units and Juvenile Justice Boards to inform and come with proposals to the ministry if they feel that there is need for setting up a facility for girl survivors of trafficking. She was speaking at the regional symposium on ‘Child Protection, Safety and Child Welfare’ in the Capital.
“The ministry through the Nirbhaya Fund will support proposals for infrastructure like creating ‘fit facilities’ (as defined in the Juvenile Justice Act) for stay and protection of girl survivors of trafficking in border areas and also in areas where the problem of trafficking of girls is widespread,” the minister had emphasised.
Irani on Sunday also asked ‘village child protection committees’ to prepare a list of “vulnerable children” facing any kind of distress and assured support to all such children through government schemes and programmes.
According to the ministry of women and child development, to combat the problem of child trafficking in border areas, the government has decided to bolster infrastructure for child protection in these areas.
India is both a source and destination of trafficking. According to officials the source countries are Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar from where women and girls are getting trafficked in the guise of providing better life, jobs and a good living condition in India. A majority of them are minor girls or women of younger age, who after their arrival in India are sold and forced into commercial sex work.
These girls and women often reach major cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad from where they are taken out of the country mainly in middle east and southeast Asia.
“This is the reason why, the bordering states to these countries need to be more vigilant and have adequate facilities to provide relief and rehabilitation services to the victims of trafficking,” officials said.
According to officials the protection and rehabilitation homes that will be set up in border areas for survivors will provide services like shelter, food, clothing, counselling, primary health facilities and other daily requirements.
On the measures already being taken, according to officials, the government has provided funding to all states /UTs under Nirbhaya Fund to set up and strengthen anti human trafficking units in every district of the country. In addition, funding has also been provided for AHTUs in border guarding forces such as Border Security Force and Sashastra Seema Bal. As on date, 788 AHTUs including 30 in border guarding forces are functional.
Recognising the need to focus on extending long term protection and support to survivors of trafficking in border areas, the WCD minister Smriti Irani had on Sunday requested the members of the Child Welfare Committees, District Child Protection Units and Juvenile Justice Boards to inform and come with proposals to the ministry if they feel that there is need for setting up a facility for girl survivors of trafficking. She was speaking at the regional symposium on ‘Child Protection, Safety and Child Welfare’ in the Capital.
“The ministry through the Nirbhaya Fund will support proposals for infrastructure like creating ‘fit facilities’ (as defined in the Juvenile Justice Act) for stay and protection of girl survivors of trafficking in border areas and also in areas where the problem of trafficking of girls is widespread,” the minister had emphasised.
Irani on Sunday also asked ‘village child protection committees’ to prepare a list of “vulnerable children” facing any kind of distress and assured support to all such children through government schemes and programmes.
[ad_2]
Source link
