By IANS,
New Delhi : With growing incidence of poor and vulnerable women from India being lured into the flesh trade, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has constituted teams to investigate trafficking channels from various districts in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi to the Middle East.
“The NCW has been been deeply disturbed with the recent spurt of missing girls in NCR (National Capital Region). In view of this, we have taken up this issue and inquiry commitees have been constituted,” a senior official at NCW told IANS.
The official said a probe committee will look into the alleged trafficking of women to Middle-East countries from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh while the other will inquire into the mysterious deaths of women in south Gujarat’s cotton fields allegedly trafficked via Udaipur and Dungurpur districts in Rajasthan.
“The NCW has found that Nepali women were also trafficked to and from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh,” the official added.
Recently, NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said 62.5 percent of 378 districts were affected by trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation.
“There are 1,794 identified places of origin or source areas from where women are trafficked and 1,016 places where the commercial activities thrive,” Vyas had said.
As per the last national level report on human trafficking by UNDP in 2007, in India 44 percent of women, mostly poor, are caught in the flesh trade. At least 43 percent of these were minors before they enter the net.
Around 66 percent women in Gujarat, 64 percent in Tamil Nadu, 55 percent in Maharashtra and 49 percent in Uttar Pradesh were caught in the vicious network, the report said.