Monday 21 December 2020

 How will child trafficking and child marriage stop?

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(Children are not the targets of our vote bank political participation. Therefore, the government does not have a children's news front page. Despite the safeguards of survival, health, nutrition, education, and development in our country, why does this curse exist? Government There have been many attempts to curb child crime, human trafficking, but there are many reasons which are becoming insufficient.)

---Priyanka Saurabh
Research Scholar in Political Science
Poetess, Independent journalist and columnist,

According to data provided by the National ChildLine-1098, a huge increase in child crime cases has been recorded during the Corona lockdown. The figures have been provided during lockdown by National ChildLine-1098 which presents a different picture of child trafficking. During the lockdown, the trend of child trafficking and child marriage is increasing. From March 2020 to August 2020, CHILDLINE carried out ground manipulation in 1.92 lakh cases, compared to 1.70 lakh in 2019 in the same period. The number of distress calls from March 2020 to August 2020 was 27 lakh as compared to 3.6 million in the same period last year. Certainly, this should have been reduced according to the circumstances. There have been 10000 child marriage cases between April and August 2020.

There are many different reasons that give rise to child trafficking, the primary reasons being poverty, weak law enforcement, and lack of good quality public education. Smugglers who take advantage of children may be from any other region of India, or may also know the child personally. Child trafficking is most frequent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Child trafficking is also most prevalent in developing countries, although it also occurs in developed and industrialized economies. Trafficking of a minor (under 16 years) for prostitution in India carries a sentence ranging from 7 years imprisonment to life imprisonment and fine. Abetment of sexual exploitation of a minor girl (under 18) or a foreign girl (under 21) is punishable with imprisonment up to 10 years and with imprisonment.

Although anti-human trafficking police have also been set up by the state governments, human trafficking is increasing in many states including Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Due to child trafficking in the lockout and increasing child labor due to the closure of schools, some children from coastal areas joined the fisheries industry. After getting information about this matter, the authorities took action and closed it. The focus of the administrative machinery was to avoid corona, so criminal elements had the opportunity to commit child crimes. Of the total cases, 32700 cases related to child marriage, sexual offenses, emotional crimes, and cyber crimes have been reported. In which 10000 cases were of child marriage only.
Many industries were operating even during the lockout. Child labor activities have been observed in these industries.

The painful journey of Love Sonia (Mrinal Thakur) exposes the illegal marketization of children, an innocent teenage girl from a poor peasant family in North India. Son of family debt and a wicked local land baron, Sonia is tricked into sex work while searching for her beloved sister Preeti (Riya Sisodia) in Mumbai. After months of grassroots vandalism and exploitation, her vassal broker, Faizal (Manoj Bajpayee), Sonia was packaged in a cargo container and shipped to service customers worldwide in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. But during a sex party for Hollywood high-rollers, she finally breaks free and seizes her life back with support from anti-trafficking charities.

There have been more cases of illegal trade in rural areas. Trafficking is where children and young people are tricked, coerced, or persuaded to leave their homes and move or transport and then exploited, to work or sell them Is forced. Children are exploited, sexually abused, cheated. The discovery of labor, financial constraints made these children more vulnerable to human trafficking. It is a very pathetic situation even after measures taken for children. Legal measures and constitutional provisions have been made for the welfare of children in our country, such as Article 21 (a): - Provision for compulsory education in the age group of 6-14, Article 24 ban on child labor in hazardous work till the age of fourteen. While Article 39 (e) - asks the state to ensure that children of tender age are not misused. The duty of the state for childhood care in Article 65 and Article 51 says that it is the fundamental duty of parents to ensure that their child receives education for the age group of 6 years 14.

The National Policy for Children that came in 2013 defines a child as everyone under 18 years of life, survival, development (mental, physical, emotional, social, cultural, cognitive), education, health, and participation. The right to protect and against violence and exploitation. Here, the Ministry of Women and Child Development monitors the schemes for the welfare of children across the country. National Child Helpline 1098 was established under this ministry.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is a statutory body under the Protection of Child Rights Act 2005. It aims to ensure that child rights are protected and protected and their policies align with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child


Survival, health, nutrition, education, and development in our country, even after safeguards, why this curse exists? There have been many attempts by the government to stop child crime, human trafficking but there are many reasons which are becoming insufficient. As such, children are not the targets of our vote bank political participation. Therefore, the government does not have a children's news front page. The Ministry of Women and Child Development represents women and children in an integrated manner. The popular government is dependent on the vote of the public. Sometimes there is a lack of political ambition to curb child crime. Apart from child crime, other crimes like child marriage are protected from a lack of political ambition. Crimes like child marriage, devadasi are protected by religious tradition, it is stabilizing the society. Children are not able to resist crime against them. Many times child crime is committed by relatives of children against whom children are not strong emotionally to take action.


Children are the future of the country, so it is the responsibility of both the government and society to protect them. In this situation, both have to play their role better and protect the present and future of the children. The lockdown has led to financial crisis and poverty, so it is putting families in frustration and making them susceptible to pushing their children for trafficking. The present situation is a message for the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), which mandate the Panchayats to maintain a migration register to monitor the movements of children within and outside the villages. Migration registers should be regularly checked and verified by block officials.

 There is a need to create a system for micro-level monitoring in the surrounding villages to prevent children of families affected by the lockdown from working as child labor, "Panchayats, other rural level officials as well as block officials This should play a major role in ensuring that children do not work and remain intact in schools. In the midst of a lockdown, the dilution of labor laws should be reviewed and defended immediately by some states because child labor and key safeguards are in place. The incidence of child trafficking may increase.
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    Priyanka Saurabh
Research Scholar in Political Science
Poetess, Independent journalist and columnist,

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