Essay On Trafficking In Rural India

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Adverse Socio-economic condition of people in many regions offer an ideal opportunity to the traffickers to lure poor women by promising better pays, jobs and much comfortable life in distant places. In several cases, women in rural areas have very little skills and education and very little income opportunities at home, find it hard to reject such offer. Sometimes the promise of immediate payments encourages the family’s living in financial difficulties to sell their daughter to the traffickers. Often marriage appears to be an easy instrument for trafficking women to for away places and exploit them sexually and economically.
It is found that a majority of the trafficked girls are between 14-16 years, whose parents could not afford to pay for their dowry. Almost in all the cases of trafficking in rural areas, the recruiters live in close proximity with the recruits and are known to the victim in the form of neighbors, relative or friends.
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The state has international boundaries with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. The India states sharing boundaries with west Bengal are Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Sikkim and Assam. Due to its crucial location in India, the vulnerable locations and groups in West Bengal are not just prone to intra and Inter-state trafficking, but also to international trafficking. The state contains some notorious red light area such as Sonagachi (Kolkata) and women and children trafficked from other parts of the Country and from foreign Countries (Bangladesh and Nepal) are brought to this place. Infiltration also adds to this continually increasing problem of trafficking.

3.1 Reason of trafficking: (i) Poverty, (ii) Illiteracy, (iii) Lack of employment, (iv) Gender discrimination, (v) Domestic violence, (vi) Child marriage, (vii) Dowry system, (viii) Social condition, (ix) Lack of Administrative function, (x) Sex tourism

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