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a quarter of the households had trafficked children (24.8%); the percentage of
households with members who had no or very low levels of education was as
high as 74 per cent; 85 per cent of the households with trafficked children had
very poor quality of housing; while analyzing the pattern of decision making
regarding a child’s migration 56 per cent of both the parents took the decision
jointly; in 10 per cent cases, agents/ contractors had come from outside the
village to procure child workers, 60 per cent of the SC households felt that there
was an increase in the activities of persons coming to the villages to persuade
parents/ guardians to allow their children to go out to work after the floods; 27.8
per cent of SC parents said that on average they received Rs 2,000 cash in lieu
of sending their children out of the village to work; 28.5 per cent of the trafficked
child workers lived with adults from their villages with whom they had travelled
from their homes; 59 per cent of parents said that they had irregular contact with
their children; some children could not be traced by their parents; 25 per cent
parents said that their children could come home once a year only; 96.6 per
cent of the parents did not knew about the laws against child labour or
trafficking; 70 per cent of the parents opined that sending children away for work
was inevitable; 80 per cent of trafficked children’s households said that their
economic condition had improved because of the work done by trafficked
children; 13 per cent of households reported that their children were subjected
to both verbal and physical abuse; 28.1 per cent children said that they were
beaten regularly; 12.5 per cent reported food deprivation, and 56 per cent said
that they were deprived of sleep.
Recommendation: Urgent attention is needed for source areas and
communities; in order to ameliorate the conditions that induce parents to send
their young ones with traffickers; developing agro-processing for generating
employment and incomes and developing marketing links for raw materials;
state government to ensure better teaching facilities; monitoring of returned
children should be done and they should be rehabilitated through education;
training and sensitisation of parents and guardians needs to be done; referral
system should be set up where chain of information centres is there and parents
can go in order to provide or obtain information and take appropriate action.
Key Words : 1.SOCIAL DEFENCE 2.CHILD TRAFFICKING 3.TRAFFICKING
4.CHILD PROTECTION 5.STOLEN CHILDREN 6.EXPLOITATION 7.HEALTH
8.EDUCATION 9.CHILDREN IN DIFFICULT SITUATION 10.CHILDREN IN
NEED OF CARE AND PROTECTION 11.CHILD LABOUR 12.CHILD ABUSE
13.CHILD MIGRATION 14.KOSI REGION 15.BIHAR.
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