Raipur,
May 15, 2013
Expressing its concern over rise in human trafficking cases in state’s
tribal regions, Congress has slammed the government for failing to protect
tribal women and children.
“More
than 10000 tribal girls are missing from the state. In over nine and a half
years the state witnessed incidents like tribal girls being sold, raped and
exploited. However, the government did nothing to check these incidents,” said
former leader of the opposition at state Vidhan Sabha Mahendra Karma, deputy
CLP leader Rampukar Singh, MLAs Bodhram Kanwar, Shiv Netam and other tribal
leaders on Wednesday.
“Recently,
the girls in Jashpur fall prey to human traffickers. They were sold to other
states. About 18 months back, an 18-year-old girl from village Tapkara (Jashpur
district) was sold at Punjabi Bagh in New
Delhi. She somewhat managed to escape and return home.
In Jashpur district alone, 55 women and 26 girls are missing for the past three
years. This shows how serious is the government and police administration
towards human trafficking cases,” they said.
“It
is an irony that the government is taking out vikas yatra and making empty
claims of development in state in backdrop of girls being sold from Jashpur,
Sarguja, Bastar and remote tribal areas in country’s metropolitan cities,” they
added.
Besides,
they said, the tribals lost their lands to capitalists via brokers in two terms
of BJP government. “The tribals are deprived of everything from land, to
forests to water due to government’s indifferent attitude towards them,” they
added.
“The
government is completely responsible for human trafficking of tribal girls and
it would have to face the consequence in the upcoming assembly polls,” they
said.
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