Ranchi: Due to the meaningful efforts of Chief Minister Hemant Soren the victims of human trafficking are being freed and rehabilitated in their homes and in the same episode three boys and 11 girls from Jharkhand’s Sahebganj district who were victims of human trafficking have been freed in Delhi.
During the counseling of these children, it came to know that a 12-year-old girl named Rekha (fictitious name) was abducted by a person from her village and brought to Delhi a year ago and made to do domestic work in brothels in different areas of Delhi for one year. When the girl objected to this, she was taken to the red light area and sold. From there one day, seeing an opportunity, she escaped by jumping from the window and reached the police station with the help of an auto driver.
Police coordinated with Jharkhand Bhawan and traced the girl’s house. Rekha’s mother has died and father has remarried. She was forcibly brought to Delhi by a villager due to poor economic condition of the house. The Government of Jharkhand and the Women and Child Development Department are very sensitive on human trafficking and believe in quick action. This is the reason why Integrated Rehabilitation Resource Center is being run in Delhi whose work is to free the victims of human trafficking and rehabilitate them in their districts. Its toll free number is – 10582, which works 24 hours a day.
Its Nodal Officer Nachiketa said that this center works under the supervision of Principal Resident Commissioner Mastram Meena in Delhi and under Women and Child Development Department, Government of Jharkhand. Secretary Kripanand Jha is very sensitive to the issue of human trafficking, he has given strict instructions to keep a special watch on Delhi and its adjacent border areas. In the same sequence the team got a big success this time and out of 14 children of Sahebganj district 9 children have been freed from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh border areas of Delhi with the help of Delhi Police.
All the districts have been given strict instructions by the Director of the Women and Child Development Department Chhavi Ranjan that hailing from whichever district the child is rescued in Delhi, the District Social Welfare Officer and Child Protection Officer of that district will bring them back to their district will be rehabilitated. In this episode, as soon as the Sahebganj district administration came to know that their children were rescued in Delhi, a systematic action was taken on this issue and formed a team under the leadership of District Child Protection Officer Poonam Kumari.
This team is returning to Jharkhand by train after camping in Delhi for the last 06 days with 14 children. It was informed by the District Child Protection Officer that all these children will be continuously monitored by linking them with various schemes of the Jharkhand Government, so that these children do not become victims of human trafficking again.
As per the instructions of Local Commissioner Mastram Meena, the Integrated Rehabilitationcum- Resource Center, New Delhi has been continuously visiting various children’s homes in Delhi, victims of human trafficking, misguided children and women who have fled unsafely by being misled by someone.