On the initiative of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the State Home Department has finally decided to notify ‘Crisis Intervention Centre’ (CIC) in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh to facilitate help to women and children who fell victim to human trafficking.
The State Government had already decided to constitute a State level ‘Task Force’ for continuous monitoring of human-trafficking particularly that of women. It may be mentioned that the State Government had also planned to further strengthen the Anti-Woman Trafficking Units by notifying them as ‘police station’. They also rewarded the policemen who would contribute in uniting a missing or trafficked person with their family under the ‘operation smile’ campaign in the State.
An official communiqué of the State Home Department released on Friday confirmed that on direction of Chief Minister, the Department has decided to constitute CIC in all eight Zonal Headquarters as well as it Kannauj, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar.
In second phase, more districts will be covered after opening CIC, the communiqué added.
In a meeting chaired by Principal Secretary (Home) Dewasheesh Panda, here on Friday, the officers were directed to formulate a policy that how quick relief could be forwarded to victims so that proper rehabilitation could be ensured.
Earlier, it was also decided to formulate a new law on verification for placement agency for domestic help, or agencies dealing with migrated labour and workers. To train the officials dealing in the human trafficking, a ‘Standard Operational Procedure’ will be formulated and regular training programme will be organised. Sensitisation programmes for all the stakeholders have been already held through video-conferencing and field level training sessions. Special Training programme for sensitisation is also underway for all 35-Anti Human Trafficking Units of the State.