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Shamsu.id - At least 300 thousand children in India are forced to beg every day. Not only begging, the children were well fed and beaten by a cartel of drug smugglers.
As reported by Reuters on Thursday (06/02/2016), a report presented experts smuggling and the local police, it is intended to encourage India to supervise law enforcement wider range of the children in the street. According to the National Human Rights Commission of India, every year there were 40 thousand children are abducted in India. Of these, at least 11 thousand children are still not traceable existence.
"The police do not think begging as a problem because they think adults accompanying the children was a family or a person known to the child," said the CEO of Freedom Project India, Anita Kanaiya, which is one of the authors of the report.
"But, of the 50 children were rescued, at least there will be 10 people who are victims of trafficking. And there should be a careful vigilance to identify them," he added.
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The report says these children are forced to beg for it accidentally injured or burned for the sake trigger greater compassion from society and earn more money. Money earned from begging boss usually paid to smugglers, or to buy alcohol and drugs.
The report was based on a series of police experience and philanthropic foundations in the city of Bangalore, south Karnataka. Local police said, there are certain seasons for beggar children in action. The number of children beggars usually increases before the festival or after a natural disaster.
In 2011, Bengaluru police launched 'Operation Rakshane', which means to save. Coordinate with government officials and humanitarian foundation, the police draw up a plan to save the children who are forced to beg. Several months prior to surgery, police fanned out to take photos of street children, documenting their daily activities and to persuade them to return home.
"When we started, we have no evidence that links between begging with smuggling. But we carefully find the fact of being forced to beg in the streets," said Kanaiya.
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The police operation was reportedly rescued about 300 children in one day. The perpetrators of human smugglers were arrested and thrown into prison. Successful examples in Bengaluru is expected to be applied in other regions of India, therefore, this report will be distributed to all police stations in India, followed by workshops and rescue operation by the police.
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