Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the first responder to the cross-border human trafficking, had made a step ahead when with the help of the officials of the UNICEF, they aware the top officials manning the border that how they could facilitate better co-ordination with other partners to combat abuse of child and women.
RsRsOur jawans are manning the trade route so we are the first responders to trap the agents or to rescue cross border trafficked victims so our prime responsibility is to how co-ordinate with our other partners engaged in taking cognizance of the matter as well as to forward rehabilitation of the victims”, claimed Inspector General of SSB, lucknow Frontier, VH Deshmukh. He made above claims before the media persons soon after attending an Orientation Programme on Human (Child) Trafficking organsied in co-ordination with UNICEF here on Thursday morning.
Deshmukh, who laid emphasis on coordination between SSB and UNICEF to take proactive steps to stop children trafficking claimed that during the period 2013 to 2015, SSB have arrested 62 human traffickers and 136 human trafficking victims rescued, out of which 69 were minors. He claimed that three vital trade routes for human trafficking coming under the lucknow frontier are Sonauli, Rupiyadiha and Barni borders and recently they also made a major success in cracking down an organised syndicate operating from Nepal and India to traffic Nepalese woman and girls to Gulf countries. He said that while three female agents were trapped on Barani border, on basis of their interrogation, they arrested key agent Dayaram (working on Indo-Nepal border) and Dayanand (operating from New Delhi), and later rescued several girls from Paharganj and Malipur areas of national capital. However, the Nepali agent Tammang, who is kingpin of the gang could not be arrested.
Deshmukh also said that besides human trafficking, the jawans were working round the clock to check subversive activities on the bordering areas particularly in wake of recent earthquake or change in political scenario in Nepal. He said that following earthquake, the consumption of RsCharas’ witnessed a drastic fall in Nepal due to cut in visit of foreign tourists so now they were more vigilant to ensure that the contraband could not be smuggled to India.
RsRsThe effective control on Human (Child) Trafficking, root causes of child trafficking and to adopt strategy to end child trafficking were primary objectives of the programme”, said Nupur Pande while giving a power point presentation to the officers to show various aspects of Human (Child) Trafficking in detailed manner. All senior officers from field units deployed on Indo-Nepal border shared their views and gave examples of Human (Child) Trafficking that might be very useful for UNICEF while chalking out plans about Human (Child) Trafficking.