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Why child trafficking again and again!

By AT Kokrajhar Bureau |

Assam has registered the highest number of child trafficking cases during the 2015 along with the highest rate of incidence(11.2) and highest percentage contribution of 37.7% to the all India total.

A one-day zonal level sensitization workshop with special focus on child trafficking was held at Science College auditorium in Kokrajhar,which was organised by Assam state commission for protection of child rights(ASCPCR).

Hundreds of participants from government official,NGO organiser,police officer and citizens from BTAD districts  participated the workshop.

Dr Sunita Changkakati, chairperson of Assam state commission for protection of child rights ligthed the lsmp to insugurste the workshop.

Human trafficking is the most despicable form of human violation of human rights. Human trafficking has been a recognised crime and considered to be one of the largest crimes all over the world which is difficult to be numbered because of its hidden nature.

In BTAD districts, many childrens were rescued by police in association with NGOs from different areas from Delhi,Siliguri,Mumbai,who were trafficked by traffickers on many occasions.

 Dr Changkakati told that Assam has been tops in trafficking, which is the anlysis of the data recorded by the National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB).

She said the number of cases registered under trafficking  had been increased from 330 in 2014 to 1317 in 2015, in which the number of trafficked girl child is more than the boy child across from 2012 to 2015.However, there has been rescue operations and a total of 911 children were found and rescued in the year 2015.

She has emphasized of the eradication of child trfaficked in the state said that the state commission has been taking stern measures through organising sensitization workshop involving all government offcial,community mobilizattion in the state.

‘Child trafficking is the violation of human rights and crime’,said Biren Chandra Phukan,BTC Principal Secretary. He said that state government has been initiating to eradicate the child trafficking in the state with stern measures.


Rajen Singh, SP Kokrajhar while participating the sensitization workshop said, ‘Extremist violence is the great problem in Kokrajhar district and its adjoining areas. Society has been suffering a lot from extremism, communal clash in the district’,he said.

Awareness among social, police officer and NGO organisers are very much needed to end human trafficking.
Shankar Brata Raimedhu, Chirang SP said trafficking means movement of persons. Trafficking only starts from violation of human rights.He has urged social community to be alertness while checking human trafficked in the state.

 

Niranjan Baruah,Kokrajhar Deputy Commissioner,Rahila Brahma,BTC Secretary were prominent speakers on the child trafficking issues that has been becoming an issue in the state.

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