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Child Trafficking in India
July 31 , 2023
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- The report titled 'Child Trafficking in India: Insights from Situational Data Analysis and the Need for Tech-driven Intervention Strategies' was released recently.
- The new study was conducted by the NGO Games24x7 and the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF).
- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Andhra Pradesh are the top three states with the highest number of children trafficked between 2016 and 2022.
- Delhi has experienced a 68 per cent rise in child trafficking cases from pre to post-Covid times.
- The number of reported incidents in the pre-Covid phase (2016-2019) was 267.
- But it rose intensely to 1214 in the post-Covid phase (2021-2022).
- Karnataka witnessed an 18-fold increase, increasing from 6 to 110 reported incidents of child trafficking.
- Jaipur City emerged as the top district in child trafficking, with four other districts in Delhi appeared in the top slots.
- As many as 13,549 children under the age of 18 were rescued during this period.
- Hotels and dhabas employ the maximum number of child labourers (15.6 per cent).
- It is followed by the automobile or transport industry (13 per cent), and garments (11.18 per cent).
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