“WORKING TOGETHER TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFCIKING”

A TWO DAY CONCLAVE

Organized By

SHAKTI VAHINI With Support and Collaboration with

US CONSULATE , KOLKATA
 REPORT OF THE SESSIONS

Shakti Vahini in association with United States of America Consulate,

Kolkata organized a two day conclave on “Working Together to Combat
Human Trafficking” in Ranchi, Jharkhand on March 27 and 28, 2015.
Seeing the vulnerability of the Jharkhand State of India from where a
large number of women and children are reported to be trafficked to other
parts of the country, the fourth Anti Trafficking in Persons Conclave was
organized in Ranchi. More than 250 dignitaries from various parts of the
country such as New Delhi, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh,
Uttar Pradesh, Assam, North-East, and Mumbai, including delegates from
United States of America, French Embassy, Bangladesh and Nepal
participated. The Conclave also witnessed the participation of various UN
Agencies like UNODC, UNICEF and International Labour Organization, and
various NGOs like PLAN, Asia Foundation, Terres de Homes, Humming
Bird Foundation, International Justice Mission and NGOs like Bachpan
Bachao Andolan, Divya Sewa Sanstha etc. The main objective of the two
day conclave was to bring together key stakeholders such as NGOs,
Government, the business community, law enforcement agencies, civil
society organizations, youths and the legal establishment to encourage
increased networking, sharing of best practices and cooperation to tackle
growing menace of trafficking in persons.

The Conclave also witnessed by the active participation of the Jharkhand

State Government with the involvement of various departments such as
the Women and Child Development Department, Education Department,
Labour Department etc. The honourable Chief Minister of Jharkhand
graced the programme by announcing to enact the Placement Agency
(Regulation) Act in Jharkhand.

The report here would be described Session wise that took place during
the two day conclave.
 DAY I (March 27, 2015)

Welcome: Formal Inauguration & Lighting of the Lamp:

Lighting the Lamp: Ms. Loius Marandi, Hon. Minister for Women and Child Development, Govt. of Jharkhand,
Ms. Neera Yadav, Hon. Minister of Department of Education, Govt. of Jharkhand, Ms. Helen Lafave, US Consul
General, Consulate General Kolkata, Dr. PM Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking and TATA Chair Professor, TISS, Mumbai,
Mr. Rameshwar Oraon, Hon. Chairperson National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, Govt. of India.

Jacinta Kerketta, a woman journalist from Ranchi, Jharkhand welcomed

all the delegates, dignitaries and participants for the two day Conclave.
Explaining the present day situation of Jharkhand where most of the
children and women are trafficked from the tribal belts and other parts of
the state, she urged for intensive discussion on the issue to come up with
suggestions and recommendations in combating the menace as well as
bring out solutions to prevent trafficking from the source itself. She then
went on to welcome Mr. Greg Pardo, Deputy Director (Assistant Public
Affairs Officer), US Consulate, Kolkata, India for his welcoming note on
the occasion.

Mr. Greg Pardo, Deputy Director (Assistant Public Affairs Officer), US

Consulate, Kolkata, India is actively working on programs dealing with
prevention of gender based violence and human trafficking, program
alumni outreach, and educational and cultural exchange programs. He
during the occasion showcased his gratitude for being able to organize the
Conclave in Ranchi. He argued that everyone present in the conclave
have been working on the issue of human trafficking in some way or the
other but the main agenda of the conclave is to work with each other,
learn from each other, understand each other and see how we can
work better together and become the voice of the voiceless.

Ms. Jacinta then introduced the Chief Guests, Ms. Loius Marandi, Hon.
Minister for Women and Child Development, Govt. of Jharkhand, Ms.
Neera Yadav, Hon. Minister of Department of Education, Govt. of
Jharkhand, Ms. Helen Lafave, US Consul General, Consulate General
Kolkata, Dr. PM Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking and TATA Chair Professor, TISS,
Mumbai, Mr. Rameshwar Oraon, Hon. Chairperson National Commission
for Scheduled Tribes, Govt. of India. All the distinguished guests were
felicitated with a hand-woven shawl and a bouquet followed by the
lightning of lamp to inaugurate the two day conclave.

Ms. Jacinta then requested Hon. Minister Ms. Loius Marandi to come to
the dais and address the participants.

Ms Louis Marandi Hon Women and Child Minister, Government of Jharkhand at The TIP 4 Conclave delivering
her keynote address

Ms. Loius Marandi, Hon. Minister for Women and Child Development,
Govt. of Jharkhand, she is one of the powerful women politicians in the
state and has been actively participating in issued related to
empowerment of Women and Minorities, she is the Cabinet Minister in the
Govt. of Jharkhand and has been responsible for Welfare and Women and
Child Development. She addressing the audiences/participants welcomed
everyone and thanked the participants for participating in the discussion
on the growing menace of human trafficking. She argued that Jharkhand
state has been emerging as one of the prone source states from where
trafficking in persons are at rise. According to her, women and children
are the prime targets of the traffickers as they are unknown of the outer
world and till when they come to know they are already been trapped.
Thus, for her it is us who can be the medium through which the
vulnerable could be saved. According to her traffickers are not someone
who is different from us but someone amongst us itself so, we should
remain alert and have the capacity in identifying them which will help in
combating the menace. She urged for the partnership between inter
State Governments and Non-Government organizations and to
share ideas and also data on the issue so that Government could
extend its support for the same.

According to the Hon. Minister the reasons for Trafficking of women and
children from Jharkhand are - 1) Poverty 2) Illiteracy, and 3)
Unemployment. She argued that the State Government has been trying
its best to curb poverty from the State through various schemes, policies,
legislations etc. but to her, awareness on the same should be reached at
the grassroots for its proper implementation. She also stated that
awareness at the grassroots is very important to send their children to
school and about the various schemes under RTE Act or Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan so that the numbers of drop outs can be decreased. She again
argued that Skill development is one of the main medium through which
employment could be generated. Giving the example of Pink Auto
initiative through which women are being empowered as auto drivers, she
said that Government would bring out more opportunities for skill
development to empower people. She concluded her speech arguing that
the presence of Anti-Human Trafficking Units in 8 districts of the State
which is headed by Lady Police Officers is itself a boost in combating the
problem. She also urged the NGOs to conduct sensitization programmes
among the people of vulnerable areas so that they could themselves be
able to prevent themselves from being trafficked.

Ms. Neera Yadav, Hon. Minister of Department of Education, Govt. of

Jharkhand. She is a member of Jharkhand Legislative
Assembly from Kodarma and also holds a doctorate from Vinoba Bhave
University. The Hon. Minister addressing the guests welcomed everyone
and thanked for conglomerating under one roof to discuss on the havoc,
human trafficking. She argued that even after several efforts the problem
has been increasing in the State. For her, one of the way out to overcome
it is partnership among every stakeholder involved, work together.
According to her, apart from poverty and illiteracy, dowry system, bonded
labours, child labours are some of the important reasons for which
trafficking of persons takes place. According to her there are many
initiatives that are structured for the development of the society such as
the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Beti Bacchao Beti Padhao, initiative by the
Hon. Prime Minister of India etc. She also laid out the example of the
Vidya lakshmi Yojna, an initiative of the Education Deptt., Govt. of
Jharkhand which aims to decrease the number of dropouts of girls from
school. As per the scheme, the Govt. grants a monetary fund of Rs. 2000
to girls in the 6th standard as a fixed deposit which she can only withdraw
when she is in Class IX. She also appreciated the Media for their work in
effectively and actively reporting cases of trafficking. According to her, it
is media, either print or electronic, through which cases are highlighted
and accordingly the Government could extend their support on the same.
She requested everyone to reach out the Government and inform about
the problems so that it could work on it and formulate policies and
schemes to prevent menaces.

Mr. Rameshwar Oraon, Hon. Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes being welcomed during
the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Mr. Rameshwar Oraon, Hon. Chairperson National Commission for

Scheduled Tribes, Govt. of India was formerly an Indian Police
Service officer, of the 1972 intake. He welcoming all the guests argued
that one of main tool to combat trafficking is sensitivity of Police Officers.
According to him, Police Department is the important tool in implementing
the laws which are being formulated for prevailing law and order in
society. Therefore, for him, awareness and sensitization among police
officers are very necessary to handle cases of trafficking. He then went on
to describe the functioning of the National Commission for Scheduled
Tribe which had been formed to oversee and monitor the implementation
of all the laws and acts stipulated to the Scheduled Tribes like the SC/ST
Act, Bonded labour, Minimum Wages Act, Child labour Act etc. Taking into
consideration about the increasing number of women and children being
trafficked to various parts of the country mostly as bonded labour,
domestic help or child labour, the Chairperson urged for the regulation of
the Placement Agency Act in the Jharkhand State, which for him is
important for combating the organized crime. He concluded his speech
stating that the joint work of all the stakeholders would be the best way
to deal with the organized crime. He also welcomed media to take active
participation in reporting cases of trafficking extensively.

Ms. Helen LaFave, US Consulate General, Kolkata and Smt. Loius Marandi, Hon. Minister, Department of
Women and Child Development during the inaugural session on TIP 4 Conclave.

Helen LaFave, US Consulate General, Kolkata. She welcomed everyone

to the Fourth Trafficking in Persons Conclave and thanked for their
presence in the discussion on working together to combat the menace.
She argued that any discussion involving Indian’s 400 million children
which is the one third of its population cannot avoid issues like child
development, education, safety and health. These are interlinked issues,
she said. The Indian State, through policy initiatives backed by budgetary
support play a key role in addressing these. Programs like ICDS, ICPS,
SSA and the mid-day meal initiative work to reduce vulnerability of
India’s children and make a huge difference in the lives of a vast number
of Indians on a daily basis. She then appreciated and showed her
gratitude towards the Jharkhand State for its ongoing Action Plan for the
elimination of child labour. This plan, according to her, identifies the
sectors where children find employment as workers: in hotels, at roadside
restaurants, as domestic workers, in brick kilns, coal picking, mining,
begging, automobile workshops, building construction, stone crushing,
rag picking etc. She also emphasized that as per the State Action Plan
around 33000 girls below the age of 18, mostly and fully or partially
illiterate are trafficked each year and are forced to work in households,
brothels, factories etc. According to her no one, adults or children should
be forced to work.

She then went on to describe the role of the US Consulate. “The

Consulate is engaged in debating, discussing and advocating for making
policies that will ensure a better deal for the children” said she. According
to her, at the Policy and advocacy level, the State Department’s Annual
Trafficking in Persons report is a global benchmark to learn about the
state of human trafficking in the world. She also appreciated the Govt. of
India for complying with the international standards for elimination of
trafficking and also for coming up with broader and strong laws to combat
the menace. She concluded her speech stating that many of us see
trafficking everyday and the next time we witness the exploitation we
would stop ignoring it and try to help. She urged for the convergence of
each and every stakeholder.

Dr. P.M. Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking and TATA Chair Professor, TISS, Mumbai addressing the participants during
the first day of the TIP 4 Conclave, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Dr. P.M.Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking and TATA Chair Professor, TISS,
Mumbai, He served Bihar for more than 15 years in various capacities
from SP to IG. He served CBI for 10 years and has handled several cases
of human Trafficking, human rights violations and many interstate and
international organized crimes. After 35 years of service in the IPS in
various capacities in Bihar, CBI, NHRC, UNODC, CRPF, etc., he retired on
31st May 2013 as the Director General of National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF) and Director General of Civil Defence, Government of India.
Presently he is TATA Chair Professor with TISS, and also Advisor to
Chairperson, National Skill Building Mission. He argued that Human
Trafficking is the ultimate violence of human rights. He therefore urged
for the participation of all. He argued that trafficking in persons takes
place for the increase in demand and also the vulnerability of people who
are being trafficked. He therefore said that we need to link both and try to
work on them so that the vulnerability of the people is decreased. He then
appreciating the Bihar State Government for coming up with State Action
Plan against Human Trafficking he suggested that Jharkhand Government
should also formulate State Plan of Action specifying the role of each and
every Department involved and working against Trafficking in Persons.
According to him there should be a comprehensive and single body on
Anti Human Trafficking rather than having different wings. For him
convergence is very important. According to him, human trafficking is an
organized crime and we need to understand in order to solve it and for
him, in order to understand we need to become the other or understand
the perspective of the other. He said that there are various NGOs working
on the issue, there are also good and sensitive Police Officers working
hard to solve such cases, therefore partnership is very important. He
concluded stating that we should work in coordination to combat
trafficking and ensure that women and children are safe within the State
within the country.

Delegates and participants during the inaugural session of the TIP 4 Conclave on 27th March, 2015 held in Hotel
Radisson Blu, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
 SESSION I: Human Trafficking Dimensions

The session started with a screening of a short film by the US Consulate,

General Kolkata on the dimensions of Human Trafficking where many
dignitaries were interviewed wherein they had rendered their
understanding on the issue.

Panelists:

• Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, IG, Jharkhand Police (Chair)

• Dr. PM Nair, IPS (Human Trafficking in India with special reference
to Jharkhand.
• Tiffany Williams, Social Worker and beyond survival campaign
organiser, National Domestic Worker Alliance, United States
(Trafficking in Persons a Human Rights issue)
• Mr Biju C Matthew, Director, International Justice Mission, Kolkata
• Mr Rajib K Haldar, Additional Director, CINI

The session was chaired by Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, ADG, Jharkhand
Police who holds a very active interest on the grievous menace. He has
been actively working on combating the issue too. He also served as the
Nodal Officer, Anti Human Trafficking Unit. He also initiated many
programmes for sensitization of Police personnel and also training them
regarding their role.

Ms. Tiffany Williams, Social Worker National Domestic Worker Alliance, USA during her session on the
Dimensions of Human Trafficking during the first day of the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015, Ranchi Jharkhand.
Ms Tiffany Williams, National Domestic Worker Alliance, USA, is a social
worker and advocate focusing on immigrant working women. She
specializes in advocacy around human trafficking of domestic workers:
root causes, exploitative conditions in the United States that perpetuate
vulnerability. She is also presently the Advocacy Director, Break the Chain
Campaign, Institute of Policy Studies. Introducing herself, Ms Tiffany
Williams argued that she developed her interest towards rights of women
workers, being a child of a single mother, it became her natural pathway.
Her project in Washington DC started in 1997. They started meeting
domestic workers many of them were trafficked by diplomats,
international officials, and wealthy families and brought to the US to
work. This resulted in many cases of abuse, their passports were taken,
they weren’t allowed to leave, they were made to work for long hours,
their movements were monitored, their families used to get threats, they
were facing physical, sexual and psychological abuse. In 2010, the
organisation got a chance to look back at all the cases and realised that if
we take the date to 1998 and replace it with 2008, the patterns of abuse
remained the same. Soon she joined NDWA and found out that the
workers were facing the similar patterns of abuse. Hence ‘Beyond Survival
Campaign’ was launched which majorly focussed to lift up the voices of
domestic workers, survivors, so that they can advocate for themselves.

Ms Williams further elaborated on Human Rights, saying, “Human Rights

are for all of us. We take this as our model for work. We know we have
these rights just by being alive irrespective of any discrimination on any
grounds. These rights include more than the rights, it includes right to be
free from slavery, right to education, food, safe and decent workplace,
and equal protection under the laws of our countries. Trafficking and
forced labour are a violation of human rights as well. We challenge
ourselves to think beyond just the trafficking, the active trafficking and
the duration of trafficking as being the violation; we look at whether the
violations happened before that. The lack of education, food and safety,
all the things that we deserve, dig the trench that trafficking follows. We
think about the violations after rescue, by some NGOs in the US, they are
put in inhumane conditions, even by those who claim to rescue them.
NDWA is working to build a survivor led movement. The main objective is
to look beyond criminalisation approach, morality driven approach or even
a rescue driven approach, we look at rights based approach. Co-operation
is required to work in civil society; there is a need of judges, lawyers,
social workers, teachers, doctors, police, NGOs, government and
individuals. Human Trafficking can be controlled if the organisations work
in collaboration. Her organisation has developed a set of core values in
the US, the rights based policy covers the full range of survivors’ needs,
including access to justice, identity and access to services, it includes
survivors as experts and consultants on policy because they know best. It
meets the real needs on the ground they are identified by the NGOs,
police officers and civil society. It ensures that enforcement is done in
collaboration in accordance with the community. NDWA envisions rights
based services to include staff training and operating procedures that
prioritise safety, health, consent and respect. Non-judgemental about life
choices and put survivor in the lead for goal planning process, it does not
re-traumatise the survivor and tries to meet all the needs that he or she
identifies including economic needs. Good services need to be adequately
funded, so the role of government and civil society is very crucial. Finally,
we connect survivors to opportunities to develop leadership, to learn
about systems and learn about ideas bigger than their own situations so
that they can feel connected. We do rights based organising and
leadership and make sure basic needs are met and we try to go beyond
the trauma and help the survivors share their experiences in a non-
exploitative way, we teach them to weave their stories through their
policy demands when it comes to testimony. Also do political education, it
is very important that the survivor knows about the policies and how they
work and how law enforcement works. It will be wrong to say that if
someone is uneducated, he or she cannot be a policy advocate; they can
teach people in whatever way it works for them. It includes exercises,
visuals, art therapies and others.”

Finally rights based social dialogue; this is a crucial part of the work,
sparks public discourse about gender, race, class and other social
problems as root causes and context. It helps uncover and analyse
different experiments. We need to share what works, we need to research
into role of policies, climate change, development and debt, foreign
policy, migration policies, labour policies, international agreements and
protocols, they are not just isolated ideas that countries struggle with,
they are connected to the struggle for human rights and against human
trafficking. The speech concluded by universalization of the problem of
human trafficking. Ms Williams has personally witnessed the testimony of
workers from around five continents and the patterns of abuse are the
same irrespective of the country. The problem must be addressed globally
with a shared sense of responsibility to correct these inequalities.

Mr Biju C Matthew, Director, International Justice Mission, Kolkata during his presentation in the first session of
the TIP 4 Conclave.
Mr Biju C Matthew, Director, International Justice Mission, Kolkata. He
is responsible for advocacy, skill development, community development,
volunteer management etc. and has been closely working on the issue of
human trafficking. Mr. Matthew initiated his discussion by throwing light
on the work of IJM. According to him, it is an organisation working in
India since a decade which is working for rescue and restoration of the
victims, and hold criminals accountable to their crime. Putting the
numbers together, IJM has rescued to more than ten thousand men and
women from bonded labour, sexual exploitation, currently in the
restorative after care program are more than 2000 individuals. Till now
there are 134 convictions and 28000 public officials are being trained. Mr
Matthew explained about the business model of the crime. “It is brutal
violent crime. It is a basket of crime” said he. He said that Human
Trafficking starts with RECRUITMENT, then TRANSPORTATION, followed
by BUYING and SELLING and finally VIOLENT ABUSE and EXPLOITATION.

He stated that, it is evident from the new paper clippings, that placement
agencies in Delhi are recruiting, buying, selling and violently abusing
people in order to get them to do unimaginable things. Trafficking is an
absolute social terror on our cities, towns and our country. He quoted Mr
PM Nair, saying, “We need to stand up and work together”. As per as the
business model of the crime, the average price of a victim is Rs. 39000.
The average number of pay per sex act is Rs 250, and average number of
sex acts per day is 11. The average cost of maintain a victim is about 2.8
L and the annual revenue per victim is about 10L. So the average profit is
7L per individual. There is a profit margin of 71%.

Mr Matthew further commented that trafficking is a brutal crime. It is not

only a crime of social implication; it is an economic crime as well.
Government should be woken up to see that there is economic forces that
work that is why there is a demand and supply , otherwise if no money
was made in this crime, there would be no demand and no supply and
that is where civil society should step out. Civil society is a justice system.
At IJM, the team has formulated a pipeline that consists of policemen,
prosecutors, judges, social workers. This pipeline of justice system, when
put in injustice mode, it filters all the injustice out and the outcome will be
justice that’s what the system should look like. But this Justice Pipeline
system is in countries like India is broken. There is problem because there
is lack of resources, training, people are over worked.

Mr Matthew explained the system through an example; he stated that, in

India, per 10L people there are 11 judges, per prosecutor fighting cases
in courts, each of them handles 300 cases, an average case takes 10-15
years to complete in the system. He further discussed that sometimes
people come and tell that police is not doing their work properly, But
there is not incentives for police when they actually work well. A case is
usually stretches upto 10-15 years. Police personnel do not see any fruits
of the labour because the system is broken. We need to take the
responsibility to fix the system, to try to say adjournment should not
happen, unnecessary delay should not happen, because the rights of the
victim are not protected.

He further commented on how our police are under-resourced, if we walk

into a hotel, the private security check to see whether there are bombs or
any arms, if we walk into a hospital, shopping complexes, even
compounds of residence, we have private security protecting us. We have
5.5 million private security in India, that is four times the size of police
force in India. The problem with our country is the rich, the elite class and
middle class are able to finance their own security because we as a nation
haven’t protected our people. We should blame the police, they are
under-resourced, they need more people, we should not blame the public
prosecutors, they cannot manage 300 people in one go. Mr Matthew
further explained the trends in the crimes now days, the most prominent
ones include shift from red light districts to residential areas, they have
become more covert, organised and challenging to collect evidence. Crime
is moving onto more technology based usage, where there is more usage
of mobile, television, buying and selling of women on whatsapp, the
technology is the advanced and people are exploited. There is a merger of
labour and sex trafficking in Jharkhand. People coming from Jharkhand
are sold as domestic workers, sexual exploitation as well as international
trafficking. It is human trafficking that is occurring. It is not one sided.
There is a list which explains about the problem and solutions, problems
include, organised, advanced, mobile and exploitative and the proposed
solutions include, reactive, under resourced, and over worked. These are
the departments who are trying to do it and we as civil society are trying
to support it. We need to work together not only in our domain but
together, support each other and begin trading information of what is
going on. If the criminals are more organised than us, then it’s a shame
for us.

Mr Rajib K Haldar, Additional Director CINI. His earlier professional

engagements include: Executive Director, Institute of Juvenile Justice
based in New Delhi, Guest faculty of the premier Delhi School of Social
Work, Delhi University and National Institute of Public Cooperation and
Child Development and Amity University. He served as Technical Advisor
to UNAIDS and short –term Consultant with UNICEF and International
Labour Organization, New Delhi. Mr. Haldar participated in EU Parliament
visitors’ programme in Brussels as the young global leader and presented
India country perspectives on Child Rights. He was instrumental in
conducting UN Study on Violence against Children in India, the Child
Abuse in India for Government of India. He is an Executive Committee
member of the National Action and Coordination Group on ending
Violence against Children, ATSEC and an Expert Group member of the
prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri IAS Academy for Child Rights curriculum
Development and the SAIEVAC Academy of Child Protection in the SAARC
region. His discussion was primarily focused on Jharkhand and West
Bengal as these eastern states are the hub for traffickers and trafficking
in persons. The theme of the presentation was Trends in migration that
leads to trafficking and the initiatives by the Jharkhand and West Bengal
Government for Safe Migration and to combat human trafficking.

Mr Haldar, gave an introduction about the eastern belt of the country and
how it has become a challenge. According to him, it is a matter of co-
incidence that in context of trade, economy and the policies, our new
government is adopting ‘Look East Policy’. He urged, as the eastern zone
is also in need of a policy to counter trafficking. According to him,
Jharkhand, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh fall in the eastern zone and
need special focus in this conclave. The reasons are very obvious to him
which includes man-made disaster; climate change, etc. which are
pushing people to move out and be the victims of trafficking and
vulnerable to different types of exploitation and abuse. Most of the
demand is for young people particularly young women and girls, and also
young children. We should look for issues of livelihood and educational
support for the young people to build safety nets at home. These are the
primary causal factors.

Another important challenge is the failure of safety net, which can be

defined at three levels; law enforcement level, social security level and
committee satisfaction level. We all are aware of the failure of this safety
net. We need to acknowledge and strengthen safety net. Most of the
trafficking programs are response driven which is essential, it is victim
centric, it is rights based, at the same time, it is time to invest more on
the prevention strategy and building the safety net looking at certain
accountability of the rights based approach from the perspective of the
victim. The primary safety at home and family community is essential
core for trafficking agenda. The failure has obvious repercussions in the
form of child marriage which is a gateway for trafficking, forced labour,
domestic help and support. In the eastern regions half of the young girls
are married before 18 years, and lots of them landed up, due to unsafe
migration, in trafficking, or in some other exploitative situations.

According to the child labour data received, nearly 200 thousand children
are found to be the victims of child labour; most of them are victims of
trafficking, and unsafe migration. The statistics speaks in volumes about
the failure of safety nets.

The government of Jharkhand has taken several initiatives, particularly

the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. They are present in different districts.
Anti human trafficking has totally converged with the juvenile police unit.
Two law enforcement agencies has to come together, juvenile police unit
is on the back seat and Anti human trafficking unit on the ground.
Jharkhand government has already taken initiatives on this matter. There
is also an initiative of Missing Child Alert Program by CID and UNICEF,
technology driven idea, the process of adding values is also going on in
Track Child Portal. There is child protection unit being rolled out by the
state government.
West Bengal also has a large sphere of trafficking. Data by CINI and
Missing Child Alert system shows there are many red zones in the state
related to trafficking. There are very disturbing trends of tourist spots
coming in the rural sector where trafficking will be in large numbers.
These spots may serve as destination as well as source. The idea is to
look at safe migration, how safe migration can be built up, the process of
safe migration should be in the local governance structure, there are
initiatives in some districts of Jharkhand, like Khunti, under ILO to which
CINI is a partner, an initiative to develop community based for reporting,
and also prevention strategy. Safe migration and community awareness is
important for building safety nets. Work in freedom program is rolled out
in several districts and is doing very good progress in terms of
engagement of ward level community and local governance structure.
Some major issues to look at are women employment, prevention of
domestic help and safe migration issues. Another initiative that has been
taken up as corporate social responsibility in PPP model is ‘Girls Power’, a
technology driven application which looks upon young adolescent girls. It
is developed in collaboration with Accenture. It has been applied in two
districts of West Bengal and it had given information on vulnerability of
children and also the movement of the victims. It has been launched in
200 schools of state. It provides some solutions at the moment. It has
created an impact on prevention child labour, trafficking and child
marriage.

An outreach program in convergence with local school, where more than

3000 children are reached has also been initiated. It is system driven
approach. There are more than 15 cases of child marriage and trafficking
that are settled and they have linked to child line services.

Another initiative is the child friendly police stations. Anti-human

trafficking unit can be expanded and child trafficking issues can also be
taken up. We can bring juvenile police unit and AHTU and build a certain
kind of Women and child friendly police stations and make a bench mark,
of justice delivered, events reported, FIR. There should be combined,
convergent law enforcement action.

Police, civil society and the law enforcement agencies should bring a
certain kind of convergent action in terms of safe migration. Sometimes
the registration of potential migrants is not done and very often these
young people land in trouble. The idea is to create a registration system
at Panchayats. There are three big agendas; the idea of child friendly
cities, sustainability development, TIP in context of children should also
be included.

Mr PM Nair argued that New forms and varieties of trafficking have come
up, which includes trafficking for naxalism, surrogacy, and militancy.
Many young girls are trafficked to naxalism, they are sex slaves, physical
slaves, mental slaves and a new form of trafficking comes up this way.
Trafficking in open/ disguise also take place, like trafficking under the
cover of migration. Numbers have gone up alarmingly. Nexus is going up.
Visible asset of a trafficker is almost 9 crores under our nose. This is the
asset of the trafficker who has been trafficking women and children from
this part of the country to others as domestic helps.

(Left to Right) Panellist: Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, IG, Jharkhand Police, Dr. PM Nair, IPS and TATA Chair
Professor, TISS, Mumbai, Tiffany Williams, Social Worker and Beyond Survival Campaign Organizer, National
Domestic Worker Alliance, United States, Mr Rajib K Haldar, Additional Director, CINI and Mr Biju C Matthew,
Director, International Justice Mission, Kolkata during the session on Human Trafficking Dimensions on 27th
March, 2013 in the TIP 4 Conclave.

Invisible assets are the assets whose information can be passed on by the
individuals. They can inform the concerned authorities regarding the
same. Forced labour has disastrous levels. Role of placement agencies is
very crucial in trafficking. The involvement of legitimate agencies in illicit
trade has caused a big problem. Facade of legitimacy is required to
camouflage, to perpetuate and hoodwink public, convert black money to
white money. We cannot say that India has not progressed in this area.
There are many instances of commendable work done in this sector;
people have started recognising trafficking as a crime. General concern
among the stakeholder is increased. In 2002, not more than 94% of the
police officers know about human trafficking and not even trained on
human trafficking. Now days in Jharkhand, at least 30-40% officers are
trained in anti-human trafficking. Media plays a very important role and
we cannot neglect the importance of PIL and court directives.

Missing children alert by Bachpan Bacaho Andolan, SOP and training

manuals, domestic worker rights, rights orientation, anti-human
trafficking units, empowerment of responders, rescue in large numbers,
investigation, tracking of kingpin, Help seeking/ Rendering behaviour of
LEA/NGO, Conviction of traffickers, rehab packages, skill building and
sustained employment presentation model in the area are some of points
in the response system.

Some major challenges faced are, Plan of Action and commitment of

stakeholders as a group fizzles out after the meeting and workshop is
over, response is skewed, Rights framework to rehabilitation, poor
capacity among LEA to handle organised crime linkage, lack of funds, and
lack of co-ordination, there is proposal of national body on human
trafficking. Political will is in vacuum, there should be comprehensive laws
to control placement agencies as in the state of Chhattisgarh. There
should be comprehensive plan and action to address all issues of human
trafficking, technological association and integration is missing, media
attention is poor.

Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, ADG, Jharkhand Police during his keynote speech on the role of Police Department in
combating Human Trafficking on the first day of the TIP 4 Conclave.

What we can do? To answer this question he said that, firstly start with
strengthening AHTUs, capacity building of stakeholders in an integrated
manner, PILs should be filed on crucial aspects, set up Anti-Human
Trafficking clubs in institutions, developing draft/laws on placement
agencies and draft state plan of action, fund support and technology
integration. He ended his speech requesting everyone to come forward
and jointly work to end the ultimate violence of human trafficking.
 Session II: State Responses for Human Trafficking

Mr. S.N. Pradhan, ADG CID- Jharkhand Police Initiatives Key Note
Speaker
Mr. Manabendra Nath Mandal, ASTEC (Chair)
Ms. Ranjana Kumari, SCPCR, Member
Mr. Giriraj, SP, Jessore
Ms. Sharmishtha Das, Joint Secretary, WCD, WB

The session was chaired by Manabendra Nath Mandal Chairman,

ATSEC South Asia and National Coordinator, ATSEC India. With 26 state
chapters, ATSEC India is a network of 561 NGOs that are working to
prevent sexual exploitation and human trafficking, especially of women
and children. ATSEC also has regional chapters in the South Asian
countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. A human rights
lawyer by profession, Mr Mandal has a long standing commitment to
address this issue from a rights based perspective.

Participants during the TIP 4 Conclave held on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Mr. S. N. Pradhan, ADG CID- Jharkhand Police, initiated his discussion

stating that human trafficking is a right based issue. According to him the
primary thing that needs to be understood when it comes to law
enforcement response is that rights are for everyone, it should not go
against another person or a system. Strongly emphasizing on how human
trafficking is a rights issue, he pressed on the need for rights to be
protected and respected. A graph from an earlier session showed how the
police department was in the bottom of the pipeline which signified a
travel from injustice to justice. He explained how the first point of contact
while seeking justice was the police department and this session will
discuss on how a state or the law enforcement agency should respond in
case a person’s right is exploited and violated.

Mr. S. N. Pradhan, ADG CID- Jharkhand Police addressing the problem of Human Trafficking in Jharkhand
during the TIP 4 Conclave, Ranchi Jharkhand.

He highlighted on the fact on how society had never acknowledged human

trafficking as a crime earlier. This statement stands true on how the
infamous “Pannalal” had not been given the title of a criminal five years
ago and only until recently was he charged for this crime. It was a bitter
reality that even the law enforcement agencies earlier were unaware
about the implications of the crime. According to the 1991 NHRC report,
around ninety-five percent of the police personnel lacked awareness
about this issue. He strongly believed in the notion that the level of
awareness of the police will be equivalent to that of society.

He cited the example of Kerala, stating how educated people claim their
rights and those same rights are exploited in another context in the state
of Jharkhand.

A keyword in human trafficking context is “Exploitation” which is not a

static concept and it has no boundaries. Exploitation according to him
needs to be enquired as it cannot be self proven. This will require due
diligence to prove that it is exploitation. The role of the law enforcement
agency is that of being aware and protecting the rights of the citizens
because it is the state and government’s responsibility to do so. An
initiative must be taken from their side to search what measures should
be adopted to suit the interest of the trafficked person.

Just like every problem needs to be measured on certain parameters in

order to find a solution, the same applies to human trafficking. He
mentioned how problems should be measured; problems should be
tracked in terms of data. Similarly, he said they should be able to
measure the solution and track the solution as it develops.

According to him, an initiative has been done by the Jharkhand police

where they have set up an integrated data base /data portal to measure
the implacability/damage done by the problem, which is at its initial
stage.

He highlighted the basis of the resolution/solution, where the intensity of

the impact can be seen, therefore, preventing from false starts. He
questioned the progress of this conclave from the previous conclave which
rings as a critical issue.

He strongly opined that if citizens of a state want to view justice, then

everybody’s involvement is very necessary. He also stated that people
have to be very particular about the legal implications of the remedies
that they are giving and how deeply with due diligence can they prove
that there has been exploitation.

He mentioned the change in dimension as they go deeper into a particular

issue, for example the case of Pannalal varied versions of his money
laundering came up soon after his arrest signifying the change in
dimension. He was happy that Dr. Nair bought out the issue of trafficking
by Naxals. He cited the example of a case in Latehar a year and half ago
where 10 boys were taken away by Naxals on the pretext of punishing the
villagers for planting trees in places which was not permitted by them.
They were trained for IED by Naxals and one kid died during the process.

He also emphasized the need for media and society to report Naxalites
involvement in trafficking of children. He concluded by stating that civil
society must unite and take a stand if they see violation of any person, be
it a child or an adult.

Mr. Manabendra Nath Mandal opined that law enforcement and state
response together is very challenging because the state wants to do
everything and law either prohibits or expands the work. His organization
counsels victims in government homes, legal cases on behalf of victims on
different books of law in West Bengal. An MOU is also been done with the
West Bengal government to look after cases of victims in various courts of
law, especially those who are in government homes and also repatriating.
Almost every month, his organization is repatriating the victims released
from court to Bangladesh following the let out procedure.
So far as enforcement of legislation is concerned, legislation needs to be
implemented. There are difficulty and lack in implementation of laws, he
mentioned.

He highlighted three key points while providing legal justice.

• After the rescue, it needs to be directed to the police or an NGO

• After the rescue, the investigation starts and unless the
investigation is properly done, the case is bound to fail.
• The need to have committed, dedicated, informed and trained
officials.

(Left to Right) Panellist: Ms. Ranjana Kumari, Member SCPCR, Govt. of Jharkhand, Mr. Biju C Mathew,
Director, IJM, Kolkata, Mr. S.N. Pradhan, ADG CID- Jharkhand Police, Mr. Manabendra Nath Mandal, ASTEC
(Chair), Mr. Giriraj, SP, Jessore, Ms. Sharmishtha Das, Joint Secretary, WCD, WB during the session “State
Responses to Human Trafficking” during the TIP 4 Conclave, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

According to him, although there was a suggestion for a separate

investigation unit within the police, it didn’t prove a success. This was not
possible because police officials are engaged in other prior duties
therefore leading in gap in-between investigation dates. He commended
the work of proactive police officer Ms. Sarbari Bhattacharya, who was
successful in retrieving the entire details of the missing girl.Law
enforcement is a blend of both failures and successes, according to him.
He further says that judicial action starts when an investigation takes
place and Statement under Setion164 Cr.P.C is made before the
magistrate and the charge sheet has been filed. Prosecutors are there to
take up the case on behalf of the victim. Their prosecutors work all over
West Bengal at earliest of the given time. They handle cases of trafficked
victims who have been kidnapped, deceived, lured, cheated, misused by
cyber crime and exploited sexually including residential areas. He also
mentioned about the lack of awareness on the police officials part
regarding the Foreigners Act, for people crossing the border of
Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. She/he could be arrested as an intruder
without any documents entering the country. Recently, an advisory has
been issued by additional secretary of home ministry which says that
whenever a child or a woman crossing the border comes to suspicion
interrogation must be done to check if they are trafficked or not. She
must be booked under section 366B IPC which is regarding importation of
girls and also age limits has been increased to 21 years and not limited to
18 years. He felt that this process needs to be implemented by proactive
police officers, in order to avoid the misuse of the two acts. As a result,
the border jails are filled with women and children from Bangladesh
caught under the Foreigners act. He gave an estimated number of 2 and
half million Indian and Bangladeshi women indulging in prostitution in the
Middle East who are potential victims of trafficking.

He emphasized on the need for attitudinal change for key stakeholders

like magistrates, lawyers, prosecutors and in the police stations. He
further added there is lack of rigorous implementation of law despite
having good laws. There is dire need of good prosecutors. Proper
rehabilitation of survivors is matter of grave concern as it tends to cause
raise a lot of questions with the community regarding her character.
Conviction of offenders should be done too. Wise use of media needed. He
cited the cases if how a woman prostitute was jailed by the police for
mistaking her daughter for a minor newly recruited. Without proper
investigations, the media blew the whole case out of proportion with the
print media violating the principle of confidentiality printing her photo,
due to which her daughter was thrown out of school as other parents
refused to send their children to such a school.

Ms. Ranjana Kumari, Member, State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights during her speech in the TIP
4 Conclave, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Ms. Ranjana Kumari, Member, State Commission for the Protection
of Child Rights, stated that Human trafficking as a grave issue has been
discussed through seminars at various village, district, state and national
level. She during her session discussed about the rescue and
rehabilitation of victims. According to her we all know that Jharkhand is a
source country for migration which includes seasonal migration, migration
due to lack of livelihood. She highlighted the need to recognize the
differences between migration and trafficking. Vulnerable girls, children
and women leave villages and migrate to urban areas with dreams of
attaining a decent job and tend to get lost or trapped in the vicious circle
of trafficking. She has had 25 years of extensive experience working with
the Naxalites especially adolescent girls in Jharkhand area and is well
aware about the woes trafficked victims face.

She would want to bring to attention that awareness about laws should be
done on a regular basis through their network of NGO’s, self help groups
and civil bodies like State commission or Women commission in the
grassroots level, she mentioned that the beneficiaries still lack awareness
about it.

A much needed step that needs to be taken before the rescue and
repatriation is that of preventive measures. She opined that awareness
programs are a part of preventive measures and there should be
convergence of different department, NGOs and all the frontline workers
working on the issue of Human trafficking.

Another valid point discussed by her was school dropouts are considered
as potential targets by traffickers as they are more vulnerable than
others. According to her, records of school dropouts should be maintain in
order to track down the whereabouts of that child.

The primary reason why parents in Naxal prone areas mostly send their
children to the relatives’ place is simply out of the fear of the Naxalites
abducting their children and making them soft targets. She mentions that
there are loopholes in the education system and that the govt. should
work in an integrated manner. They should work on new ideas such as
provision of residential school and hostels so that parents do not need to
fear about their children being taken by Naxals and /or sent to other
states for work.

She during the discussion mentioned that 300 girls from Khunti district, a
district prone for trafficking and migration were taken under the umbrella
of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur for preventive measure and were given life skill
support, vocational support. In that way even after they migrate after
being educated up to a certain level, it will be considered safe migration.
She concluded by saying Panchayats should play an active part in
registration of children, girls and women so that they can keep track of
them if in case they migrate. Along with that governance needs to be
strengthened and there should be ownership of the problem. Political
parties can lend a helping hand in sensitizing the community about the
laws and issues. Schools should take initiative to spread awareness about
these issues through audio visual aid and children can act as change
agents in their communities.

The esteemed panelist during the second session on State responses to Human Trafficking. ADG CID
Jharkhand Police Mr SN Pradhan, Mr Biju Mathew ,International Justice Mission , Dr Manavendra Mandal, SP
Jashpur , Ms Shramistha DasJt Secretary Women and Child Development , Government of West Bengal are
seen in the Picture ,

Ms. Sarmistha Das, Joint Secretary, Deptt. Of Social Welfare and

Women and Child Development, Govt. of West Bengal. She has 25 years
of working experience as a leader in development sectors especially for
the Women and Child Development. She is exemplarily working in West
Bengal for combating the issue of Human Trafficking and also actively
participating in bringing out policies in preventing the menace. She had
also been effectively working on the rehabilitation of trafficking survivors
of West Bengal.

She initiated her session stating that West Bengal is considered a source,
transit and destination state and the government recognizes this as a
huge problem. It has taken steps by forming a state advisory committee
consisting of the key stake holders including the police, the NGOs who are
working in this issue. They also have a West Bengal task force which
meets regularly. They have also drafted a rehabilitation policy which will
be finalized in the upcoming months.

She mentioned the importance of interstate collaboration. She informed

that an MOU has also been signed between the West Bengal and the
Maharashtra government because Maharashtra has been the recipient
state for girls of West Bengal area. Meetings are conducted between two
task forces in order to facilitate returns of Bengali speaking victims who
are mistaken as girls from West Bengal but instead are Bangladeshi
citizens. After the signing of the MOU, the girls are sent to the Bangladesh
High Commission, Mumbai.

As far as prevention is concerned, Kanyashree Prakalpa has been

designed which aims at improving the status and well being of the
adolescent girl child between age group of 13-19 years. The records of
the district level health survey show that 32% of the girls are married off
before 18 years. Early marriage is a major cause for the maternal
mortality rate and infant mortality rate along with trafficking.

She went on to discuss the scheme which aims at giving scholarship

support so that they can be retained in the educational matrix. Families
having an annual income of not more than one lakh twenty one thousand
are targeted for this scheme. This scheme has two components, one
where school going girls are given a scholarship of Rs. 500 per annum
which has been increased to Rs. 750 recently. If they pursue higher
education after 18, girls are given a one time grant of Rs. 25000. The bar
for family is not applicable if the girl has lost both parents or is physically
challenged (40% disability) in terms of the provisions of Persons with
Disabilities Act 1995.

It is a unique scheme because the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare is

working in convergence with the school education, higher education,
health, IT, backward classes and minorities. She further added that
technical and vocational training are also given through this scheme. Last
year, they had received around 91.6% applications for the annual
scholarship and 88.6% has already been sanctioned and is under process.
It is IT friendly so that transparency is maintained. They also have
representation of social groups which is 37% general and around 23%
scheduled caste.

She mentions a data base is maintained so that girls are tracked in case
they get married or are being trafficked. According to her, a sharp decline
of MMR is expected in the next five years. A baseline survey has already
been done with the UNICEF and after two and half years or three years,
they will have a midlife and at the end of the fifth year, an assessment
will be done to see the change in statistics.

They also have a school retention scheme similar to that of Rajiv Gandhi
Scheme for empowerment of Adolescent girls, where girls are trained and
given meals. They have been working in various districts of West Bengal
like Nadia, Jalpaiguri, Cooch bear etc. as a result of which there has been
a sharp decline from 2,02,136 to 1,49,403 in over a year, where 52000
girls have been made to go back to school.

She mentioned that the scheme has received an international acclaim for
being the best practice in the Girls Summit held in London July 2014.They
have also received the best award for the Manthan Award E-Women &
Empowerment- Winner 2014.

Question and Answer

Question asked by a participant: Domestic workers mostly are not

entitled to policies that cover their health insurance, pensions neither do
they have a standard minimum wage. How would you define this as a
form of exploitation and is it human trafficking or not?

Answered by Mr. S. K. Pradhan - Trafficking and migration is typically

seen from the commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) angle, but when it
comes to Jharkhand, it is seen mostly as domestic led trafficking in terms
of adolescent girls being trafficked. He agrees to the point that there is a
thin line that separated migration from trafficking. There is a huge
possibility of shifting from migration to trafficking. There are quite a few,
more than 250 registered placement agencies in Delhi, and the only
information available with them will be their departure from their village.
Information beyond that, whether they reached their destination or not
etc is hardly available.

Girls going for domestic labour are most like to be sexually exploited.
There is dire need for the worker to be registered first and verified. Delhi
police do not follow up after the initial verification. Although ministry of
labour has a data base of the workers, it is not available in the public
domain and is not shared with the police department.

According to him a proper monitoring system needs to be in place which

can track people who leave the village and the purpose of work he/she is
going for, which will provide a sense of security.

Question asked by Mr. P.M. Nair to Ms. Das: Most of the rehabilitation
and rescue is not a legal mandate; can you bring out the legislation in
West Bengal whereby rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation can be made
a legal mandate?

Answered by Ms. Das: As far as legalization is concerned, the draft has

been prepared and this draft policy includes rescue and rehabilitation,
which is in active circulation of the converging departments will be passed
through the cabinet.

Question asked by Ms. Urmi Basu to Ms. Das- In practical terms if

you break down the scholarship amount of Rs. 750, it comes to Rs. 62.50
per month. So, are these girls worth just Rs. 62.50 for scholarship?

Answered by Ms. Das: Agreeing that the amount is less, she said that
the government will increase it gradually. It is the initiative to retain the
girls in school is what matters as of now. Along with that, the girls also
have access to other schemes like Right to Education act which provides
midday meals and free education etc.
Question asked by Ms. Urmi Basu to Ms. Das- Many times it is seen,
that these girls do not have any documentation as such, so how can you
ensure that the bank accounts opened for them are authentic enough?

Answered by Ms. Das: Documentation is not an issue, because

verification of being a regular student is usually done by the head
master/mistress and the teacher. Bank camps are set up in such schools
where zero balance authentic accounts are opened for the girls.

Participants during the TIP 4 Conclave held on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi Jharkhand.
 REPORT OF PARALLEL SESSIONS

The Session was followed by lunch after which the audiences

dispersed for the Parallel Session organized on various issues
within the ambit of Human Trafficking. The sessions were on the
following topics:

• Safe Migration and Labour Trafficking

• Media Responses to Human trafficking-Rights Based Media
Reporting
• Rehabilitation of Survivors: Corporate Social Responsibility
• Responses to Cross Border Trafficking & SAARC Protocol.

Parallel session I: Safe Migration and Labour Trafficking

Participants during the parallel session on “Safe Migration and Labour Trafficking” held in Iris Hall, Radisson
Blu Hotel on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Speakers:

Dr. PM Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking Expert & TATA Chair Professor, TISS,
Mumbai
Ms. Bharati Birla, International Labour Organization,
Mr. Manish Ranjan, Labor Commissioner, Jharkhand
Ms. Nandita Baruah, Asia Foundation , Nepal
Mr. Manabendra Nath Mandal, ATSEC
Mr. Mahadev Hasda, Save the children India

Mr. Sanjay Mishra started the session and invited the resource persons
and the chair to take up the session and discuss on the issue. The session
was then carried forward by Ms. Nandita Baruah, Asia Foundation Nepal.
She chaired the session and further invited Ms. Bharati Birla to discuss on
the issue further.

Ms. Nandita Barua, Deputy Country Representative, Asia

Foundation, Nepal. She has over 20 years of professional experience
working on gender, human rights, labour migration and human trafficking
issues in South and Southeast Asia. She has headed South Asia regional
programs on gender-based violence, human trafficking and migration and
rural development. She worked as the Gender Advisor to the CIDA in
India and also as the South Asia Regional Gender Fund Manager. She was
the Regional Coordinator for the UN Women anti-trafficking program and
the UNODC UN-GIFT program. She has served with USAID India as the
regional anti-trafficking and gender specialist. In these roles Nandita
Baruah worked to support national governments and civil society partners
to design and deliver programs that effectively address the core socio-
economic and political dimension of development through a rights-based
and gender-equitable framework. She has worked in India, Bhutan,
Bangladesh, Cambodia and Nepal.

Ms. Bharti Birla, International Labour Organization. Having been

associated with ILO since 2009 Ms. Birla is currently the National Project
Coordinator of Work in Freedom-a project that works for prevention of
trafficking of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East which can
directly benefit at least 100,000 women and girls. She is also the National
Project Manager focusing on reducing vulnerability to bondage from April
2012 till date. Her specialties include policy and Planning, programming
and budgeting, project management, business operations. During her
session focused on the issue of forced labour and trafficking for
commercial sexual exploitation. She further discussed about migration
linking it to trafficking. She said that every migration is not trafficking.
She said that as per the data of ILO, around 12.9 million people are being
trafficked worldwide and a huge number of these victims remain children
and women.

She further mentioned that while understanding migration, we have to

see who is migrating and how is s/he is being migrating. She said that the
migration can be of different types be it seasonal migration, temporary
migration or a permanent migration. The reason for migration can be
varied be it due to opportunities, poverty, Land acquisition, climate etc.
she said that while dealing with the target population it is very necessary
to understand the reason of migration. ILO believed that migration shall
be an informed choice not a forced decision. When we talk about informed
decision, we also need to understand who all influence the decision of
target population and especially women.
Even if a woman has to migrate for work, she should be prepared to
work, she should be given awareness. It has also been observed that in
labour works, as is also observed in Brick Kiln, only men are registered as
labour and women are not registered as labour. Labour is seen a male
and female are often seen as victims of trafficking. Financial decision
making shall be increased among communities.

How to make this migration as safe migration? Answering this question

that she raised, Ms. Birla she said that we must make the communities
aware about the issues. We must bring about pre departure training and
orientation. We must provide them some training which introduces them
to the market. She said that we must now think on the preventive aspect
of human trafficking.

While discussing on the point of who is responsible for preventing human

trafficking, She said that all the stakeholders are equally responsible be it
government, civil societies, NGOs, International organization, media,
education, receiving state or the sending state. She said that media is
having an important role in bringing up the topic. Media shall keep on
raising such issue which will create a motivation as well as
encouragement among more and more people to work for vulnerable
groups. While discussing it in depth, the resource person said that there is
a need for a convergence and common dialogue among various
stakeholders.

We must work together and government shall come up with state action
plan to combat human trafficking and safe migration. She concluded the
session and Ms. Nandita Baruah, then invited the next resource person
Mr. Manabendra Nath Mandal.

Mr. Mandal began the discussion with bringing the focus of the audience
towards the law and its implementation. He said that we have law but it
can only appoint agency. The laws are not implemented effectively.
People are many times trafficked on the name of migration. The victims
are then pushed into forced labour. He also discussed in brief about cross
border migration which actually leads to human trafficking. He said that
migration is not limited to the borders of the country but has now crossed
borders.

In India, we do not have any proper migration policy and we are in urgent
need to develop such policies. The other issue that he focused was the
lack of organization working on the issue of migration. Mr. Nath Mandal
further discussed about specialized training for women migrant. He said
that such trainings and orientations will boost the market in favor of our
target groups.

While discussing about the placement agencies, the resource person said
that the agencies are playing major role in bringing and taking people. In
special reference to child migrants who are migrating internationally for
studies as well as adoptions shall also be given extra attention.
He very well raised the point of giving training to customs officers so as
they can also identify the cases.

Mr. Mahadev Hasda, State Program Officer, Save the Children

Foundation was called to discuss further. He said that he has been
working with 184 villages and 8 districts in Jharlkhand. He focused his
presentation on three points namely Prevention, Response in the sense of
his experience in rescue and rehabilitation and thirdly convergence of all
the different stakeholders. While talking about prevention, he said, we
must know how much the community knows safe migration. He said that
he has observed that the communities usually migrate because of better
opportunities, acute poverty and unemployment. He said that due to talk
of opportunity and due to the influence created by traffickers or agents
the aspiration of people increases. He said that he tried to work with
communities in imparting awareness through various groups of children
as well as adults.

He said that as per ICPS (Integrated Child Protection Scheme) there

should be community protection mechanism in each community, but at
community level, the information has not yet publicized as much as it
should be. He further talked about co-ordination mechanism among
various NGOs where by NGOs rescue the children at the destination level
and the home investigation being done. While discussing about
rehabilitation he raised the issue of lack of short stay homes for survivors
at different district. He further discussed about re-trafficking of children.
He said that there shall be a follow up, but the challenge remains that
who will do the follow up.

While discussing about various stakeholders convergence, he said that all

the functionaries shall full fill all the responsibilities and shall take up its
role with commitments. State as an important stakeholder shall also
decide the role of different department and shall come up with a State
plan of Action to combat human trafficking.

Ms. Nandita Baruah concluded the session and called up the next resource
person Mr. Manish Ranjan who is the Labour Commissioner of the
Jharkhand Government. Mr. Ranjan said that Jharkhand remains the
source of trafficking since long. Trafficking can be across age and across
gender. It is a major challenge for all of us to combat human trafficking
and we have to work together. He discussed the case of Kerala whereby
345 children were trafficked from Jharkhand on the pretext of education.
He said that it was very shocking that the children who have parents were
shown orphans via certificate. He said that trafficking is not merely for
labour. He said that trafficking has been problem in Jharkhand where the
traffickers are running placement agencies.

Mr. Ranjan said that the biggest challenge is to check migration. He said
though we cannot stop migration but we can at least keep a check on
migration and make it safer. He discussed about various schemes and
initiatives taken by Jharkhand government to curb human trafficking such
as anti child labour Help line, which is working very effectively and is
monitored almost every day, secondly we have some places where
schools are being run to educate children, thirdly under Rashtriya
Swastha bima yojna the domestic workers are being registered where
they are given an insurance of approx 30000, further there is a scheme of
registration of migrant population.

The resource person further said that the initiatives are being taken,
many organizations and states are working together to combat trafficking
but we need to speed up our efforts.

Ms. Nandita Baruah, then requested Dr. P.M Nair to summarise the
session. Dr. P.M Nair stressed on providing soft skills to women and
young girls which will increase the market for the girls who are otherwise
at the risk of being trafficked. These workers shall be made aware about
their rights. He said that when migration is linked with vulnerability and
exploitation it becomes human trafficking. He said that Jharkhand
government shall come up with a mission of skill building. He said that
there should also be district level camps by labour department where by
some skill and orientation being provided to migrating people. Further he
suggests that there should be a small booklet on rights of worker which
shall be given to migrants so as to make them more aware. He said that
similarly the police officers shall be given orientation. And lastly there
should be control on placement agencies. There should be a law to
regulate the agencies. For this we have to take up the responsibility of
combating trafficking all together.

Dr. Nair concluded the session suggesting about a single window system,
or a state level or district level bureau where the people who are
migrating can report at the time of need instead of running from one
department or the other.

Parallel Session 2: Media responses to Human Trafficking –Rights

Based Media Reporting

Penalist:

• Mr. Kisalaya, Senior Journalist (Chair)

• Ms Claudia Soren, Akashwani
• Mr. Pankaj Sharma, The Telegraph, Guwahati
• Ms. Sonali Das, Times of India Jharkhand
• Ms. Ambika Pandit, Times of India, New Delhi

Mr. Kisalaya, Senior Journalist, chaired the session with four

dignitaries on the panel, some very renowned journalists from the
newspapers/ radio. Mr Kishalaya is a renowned Senior
Journalist and Author, Executive Director Reachout Foundation, Former
Resident editor NDTV, Chair Internal Security and Senior fellow IDSA,
Trainer, and documentary filmmaker. He has been an active journalist in
reporting crime reports, cases of human trafficking and many such stories
which gained attention of the Government as well as gained accolades.

Mr. Kisalaya, Senior Journalist chairing the session on “Media responses to Human Trafficking –Rights Based
Media Reporting during the TIP 4 Conclave held in Astor Hall, Radisson Blu on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi,
Jharkhand

The session started with a general introduction to Human Trafficking

which was given by Mr Kisalaya. Human Trafficking was known from
decades but the government of Jharkhand, have recognised trafficking as
a heinous crime recently. It is good as it will help to formulate and design
interventions to combat the problem of trafficking in the state.

Ms Claudia Soren, Akashwani, She argued that the state of Jharkhand

is worst affected by trafficking. It is a danger as well as challenge for the
tribal community. Media is known as the fourth pillar of democracy, it
mainly hold the responsibility of providing right information at the right
time to every corner of the country.

Ms Soren focussed on the role of Akashwani and print media in reaching

out to maximum people. She mentioned that the media has failed to
target specific groups and media is not able to follow up.

Commenting on print media she said that every news that gets
highlighted are forgotten within 3 days, media should ensure that the
follow up of the survivor should also be done. Media has a role in covering
the whole process from rescue to rehabilitation.
For understanding and blending into tribal community one needs to be
aware of their language so that communication is done properly and right
information is conveyed in order to avoid unfavourable circumstances.
Government and Media should maintain a balance and work for a concrete
path of development. Tribes should be empowered.

Mr. Pankaj Sharma, The Telegraph, Guwahati: He focused on the

training and development of journalists. He said Data compilation is not
possible as the information is very dilute and devoid of facts. In order to
understand human trafficking thoroughly, facts should be made available
to the journalists so that objective reporting can be done.

A journalist should know about the laws and facts in order to get proper
news. He basically focussed on research based as well as victim oriented
reporting. Mr Kislaya added to the conversation, by saying that print
media should publish more and more about this social evil.

Ms. Sonali Das, Times of India, Jharkhand “In early 2000s, when the
first TIP conclave was held, we were discussing about the interventions
that should be taken to combat the problem. Today in the 4th TIP
Conclave, we are still discussing the same.”

She said that Government should be passionate about the issue of

trafficking and only then some good measures can be devised. According
to her, two major root causes of trafficking are: Lack of livelihood
opportunities and skills, illiteracy. Government can spread awareness in
their vernacular language to reach out to the adivasi population.

Government has secret service funds available to them to tackle Maoists

problems in the state, proposal of a plan in which the ‘Invisible Enemies’
should be made using these funds, because incidents like these starts at
home. The informants need to be tackled very strictly.

Agencies should be made in order to tackle the movement or migration of

people from one state to another so that a database is maintained, and it
becomes easier to find the missing link if any.

Government and Media should work very passionately in order to tackle

this issue of trafficking.

Ms. Ambika Pandit, Times of India, New Delhi, Ms. Ambika Pandit
have been working as a mainstream journalist since 14 years. At present,
she is working as an Assistant Editor with the Metro department of ‘The
Times of India’ in Delhi. Her work profile involves reporting on politics,
policy and development issues. All her reports are based on intensive
field work which is also her strength. Many of her reports have helped
shape public opinion and government policy. Joined as senior
correspondent in 2005, Ms. Ambika Pandit had been instrumental in
reporting cases of trafficking
Media is not only about reporting, it is about reporting a news which is
linked to a human angle and further links to other policy frameworks.
Rather than highlighting a rescue operation, the role of media is to show
the issue with more sensitivity within human context. Major responsibility
of the media is to remove these issues from the category of ‘soft issues’.
Out of at least 5 stories, 3 stories are based upon real issues which
connect with human angle in order to raise awareness among people.

Normal people unlike media personnel should also help in working with
media in order to be many effective. It is very important for media to
follow up so as to confirm that the first information that was given to the
media was true and not misleading.

Government, Voluntary sector, media and individuals play a very

important role in handling these issues. Rights based reporting requires
rights based approach.

Participants during the parallel session on “Media responses to Human Trafficking –Rights Based Media
Reporting during the TIP 4 Conclave held in Astor Hall, Radisson Blu on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Question and Answer during the Session

Question by a participant: Why is the role of media so limited to rescue

operations. Sometimes the committees are only on papers, some stories
are published without going through the judgement.

Addressing the question, it was answered that TOI is constantly reporting

on issues like illiteracy, poverty, unemployment etc. These things give
rise to trafficking. It is difficult to go to villages. Role of media is that they
should do a follow up till the girl is completely rehabilitated. There is also
a limit for media research. As a journalist, they look to news in a story,
not a feature based news.

Parallel Session 3: Rehabilitation of survivors: Corporate Social

Responsibility

Penalists:

• Mr. Digambar Nazary, Chairman of NEDAN Foundation

• Mr. A.T Mishra, Managing Director of Jharcraft
• Ms. Sita Swansi, Secretary of Diya Sevac Sansthan
• Ms. Soni Mehta, Joint Secretary in Chamber of Commerce
• Hasina Kharbhih, Impulse NGO Network

Corporate social responsibility is an avenue to eliminate human trafficking

issues. A new corporation law has given emphasis on corporate to keep
aside 2% of their profits for social responsibility. This initiative is a new
direction for some civil societies as it is a key source of income for their
activities. But there is a misconception that companies have undertaken
this for a real long time. The purpose is to find the issues, combat
challenges, and to get impactful suggestions from this session. Thus, the
discussion on the partnership of CSR was one of the prime focuses of the
Conclave.

A.T. Mishra, Managing Director, Jharcraft initiated the discussion

briefing about the initiative of the Jharkhand Government- Jharcraft which
is a socio-economic enterprise as it is concerned of the social aspects of
their team. It’s a government endeavour to promote handloom, handicraft
and to revive a state of culture.

According to him, Jharcraft is built to create opportunities and mainly to

those who are meant for this task to make a difference in their lives. The
organisation run in three sectors; sericulture, handloom, and handicraft.
Through their immense production of silk, many people have got a chance
to engage in this activity for which they are monetarily secured. On the
other side, cocoon produces thread further which is used as a raw
material for manufacturing Sarees which are solely organised by women.
Training and development is imbibed into the manufacturers so that
products are expensive and due to which artisans can get a better
remuneration. Nevertheless there are other products and these are
exported to various metropolitan cities. This work is achieving recognition
for artisans’ great art.
It is an organised self-help group where cluster of 20-25women are
integrating for their efforts to fabricate which are showcased in various
stores.

He informed that Jharcraft is ready to partner and take under it survivors

of human trafficking and train and empower them with skills in crafting,
weaving etc so that they become self dependent and vulnerability could
be slowed down. He argued that Jharcraft is planning to recruit 30
survivors as an initiative towards combating Human Trafficking.

Mr. Digambar Narzary, Chairman NEDAN Foundation He presented

the discussion on Weaving destination – a social change and argued
that NEDA Foundation began with unreached areas like Pokhra and it has
emerged in numbers with more than 3000 employees. It is a business
activity where returns are expected in monetary terms after selling the
products. According to him, it is an initiative for social impact wherein
each survivor receives 5000-8000 per month and accommodation so that
they could be supported in every possible way for their development and
empowerment.

According to him, usage of machine is not preferred as it accumulates

wastage and kills old tradition. He argued that Eri is absolute chemical
free.

He focused on socially exclusive areas where there is no provision of

education, health facility, nil electricity, etc. It is a region where women
can’t avail various possibilities that is included in schemes. A school
cannot be built within a radius because forest area is affected. These are
certain loopholes exist in tribal areas. Prevalence of issues like drop outs
have joined militancy, absence of health care centres which are far from
their community, high infant mortality rate. Mr. Digambar aims these
areas and support these groups immensely.

Ms. Madhulika Das, an executive of Radisson Blu concentrated on

human trafficking, mainly of women and children which according to her
is a menace and to perform duties for the communities is one of our social
responsibilities. According to her, Carlson is among the first hospitality
companies to sign United Nations global compact the largest corporate
responsibility initiative in the world. Thus for her, keeping the trend going
and supported by such a rich foundation, she put forth the interest of the
company to show their solidarity towards the initiative of combating
Human Trafficking and therefore partnering with Shakti Vahini by giving
rehabilitation support either by way or training or through capacity
building efforts. She showed the keenness in participation towards
community service.

Ms. Soni Mehta, argued that the turnover of corporate in the range of
500 crores have number of aspects present in corporate world such as a
corporate wing. These wings can invest 3% to 26% of share in one of the
major issues like rehabilitation or for the development of the society.
Similarly, corporate need to invigorate different corporate wings to bring
reformation in the society. Usha Martin is one such example. Some of the
areas which require immediate action are sanitation, education, power
cuts, livelihood training, capacity building, infrastructure development,
and legal aid wing.

Ms. Sita Swansi and her team have shown remarkable changes in
numerous districts of Jharkhand. They are not only exert survivors’
positive energies into facilitation of resources but fight for their rights too.
Vocational training like stitching, tailoring, etc. has created an edge for
women to become self-dependent. Her organisation looks after the needs
of illiterates and widows who are manipulated by traffickers/touts.

Ms. Hasina Kharbhih, According to her, Tribals have tremendous

traditional skills in the tribal belt of Jharkhand which have not been a
focal point for market value. Thereby she has decided to create marketing
linkages in these fields through Impulse social enterprises. Many
trafficked women are recovered and safely placed in their respective
communities. Moreover they are actively participating in numerous skill
building programs but their products are not for merchandising. The
reason for this is that consumers show sympathy by purchasing their
product instead customers must appreciate their talent. Hence this is a
major setback for such victims.

Questions Asked/suggestions:

Mr. Digambar Narzary suggested for an urgent provision to invent

strategic document to analyse corporate’s investment allotted for
community development. Companies have failed to fulfil the needs of
communities within their area of operation. Consequently this type of
conclave must emerge for larger corporate participation. More Set up CSR
hubs that must have affiliated associations like CII where expertise know
how to acquire funds desegregated into development. Also strategic
document is an essential need to portray their roles as corporates are
profit generating entity so are mainly oriented in manufacturing or
developing products. For this reason, they cannot be suddenly sensitized
and realise their roles. A corporate approached, Ms. Smita Gupta
suggested, for giving permission to make such sanitary manufacturing
units in every block. On this she reverted to include a point in MOU that
there is no land acquisition by Mahila Samakhya. Aftermath they didn’t
turn up. Hence NGOs need to have a crystallized vision during association
with corporate. Question by a participant: How do you involve the
survivors in the decision-making process and what is the exit strategy?
Answering to it, Mr. Narzary said that, estimates of around 330 producers
are the board members and among them there are some survivors. It’s a
social enterprise govern entirely by women. While Ms. Kharibhih argued
that her organisation will sustain even if the founder exist or not as there
are investors. Shareholders play a vital role as weaving production cannot
be continued with limited resources. Designers hailed from India
integrated with NEP and are joining in to use empower textiles.
 Parellel Session 4: Responses to cross border trafficking and
SAARC Control

Penalists:

• Ms. Towhida Khondker, Advocate BNWLA

• Ms. Kabita Bhandari, Shakti Samuha
• Mr. Chandra Kumari Ghimire, Consul General, Nepal Consulate,
Kolkata
• Mr. Rajesh Mani, Manav Seva Sanstha (Chair)
• Mr. Satyajit Ghosh, Missing Child Alert,
• Mr. Rodolple Monnet, Counsellor for Social Affairs, French Embassy
• Mr. Fabric Grossir, Police Commissioner, French Embassy
• Beenu Maya Gurung, ATWIN allian
• Mr. Rajesh Mani, Manav Seva Sanstha chaired the session.

Towhida Khondker, Advocate, Bangladesh National Woman Lawyer’s Association during the Parallel Session on
“Responses to cross border trafficking and SAARC Control” during the TIP 4 Conclave.

Towhida Khondker, Advocate Bangladesh National Woman

Lawyer’s Association said that BNWLA is an Organization of women
lawyers established in 1979, providing comprehensive legal services,
providing legal protection, promotes the rights and status of women
lawyers, working for equal rights and access to justice, establish the law
in country, to file PIL to form policy to put pressure on govt. to make new
laws.
She stated thematic approaches adopted by BNWLA which are:
prevention, protection and rehabilitation and reintegration.

Working on Prevention they provide training orientation on unsafe

migration and trafficking issues to various stakeholders like:

• Police
• Border guard of Bangladesh -repatriation of trafficked victim
• Local govt.
• Civil society members
• Religious leader
• Journalist
• Govt official
• Community care committee

Protection: They assist in the prosecution, support in rescue (wrongful

confinement), release and repatriation. For repatriation they have shelter
home named Proshanti which means peace. Here, they follow the need
assessment approach where they ensure basic need, education and skill
training, linkage, community care and follow up as per the interest of the
trafficked victim.

Further she discussed in detail about the repatriation process undertaken.

BNWLA informs the embassy/high commission /consular for steps taken
for issue of victim’s nationality. Besides assisting in the enforcement of
law they approach embassy for the shelter home.

According to her they have partner NGO of survivor’s at the country of

origin that facilitates identification of survivor’s nationality and informs
the home ministry. Then they independently contact the partner NGO in
survivors receiving country like Middle East etc.

Her concern was also for the provision for the fund required for
repatriation. According to her the survivor is repatriated to host county
either by air (Partner NGO prepares all necessary documents required by
Ministry of home and Civil Aviation authority) or road (survivor is sent
through border check post with requisite papers for Ministry of home and
BGB office to receive.)

She said that Bangladesh serves as a source country with its destination
as not only next door India and Pakistan but even the Middle east which
includes Lebanon, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia etc Mobility either to pursue
dreams, expectations and frustration usually can lead them to the traps of
trafficking.

She further informed about the various constitutional mandates in

Bangladesh which includes
 Art 34 (1) that bans forced and bonded labour
Art 14 bans all form of exploitation
Art 35(5) No person subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading punishment or treatment
Art 18(2) prevention of prostitution
Art 31 protection of law for every citizen
Art 36Freedom of movement endorsed

Furthermore, she said, Trafficking as a term was not included before, it

was termed as abduction or kidnapping.

She then went on to discuss about the International instruments to

combat human trafficking. She mentioned about the Palermo protocol
which is a UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in
persons 2000.

Other instruments, she stated, were:-

1. The convention for the suppression of the trafficking in persons and of

exploitation of the prostitution of others 1949.
2. The supplementary convention on the abolition of slavery, slave trade
and institutions and practices similar to slavery 1956,
3. The ILO convention (no.182) in the prohibition and immediate action
for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour 1999
4. The ILO forced labour convention (no.29) on forced or compulsory
labour 1939
5. Convention on preventing and combating trafficking in women and
children for prostitution. 2002

According to her, the major highlights of the SAARC convention on

preventing and combating trafficking in women and children is that the
Convention is a milestone to open regional cooperation and coordination
to combat trafficking. It constitutes the basis for the formulation of
domestic policies and legislation concerning trafficking. Its main focus is:-
on repatriation and rehabilitation.

(Highlighted articles taken from the SAARC convention were)

Art 6, Mutual legal assistance: This was with respect to

investigations, inquiries, trials or other proceedings in the
requesting state with respect to offences under this convention.
Bangladesh enacted Human trafficking deterrence and suppression
act in 2012 considering UN protocol and SAARC convention.
Art 7: extradition or prosecution
Art 8: Measures to prevent and interdict trafficking in women and
children - state parties shall provide sufficient means training and
assistance to their respective authorities
Art 9 : Care, treatment , rehabilitation and repatriation of victims of
trafficking - where the state parties shall work out modalities for
repatriation of victims to the country of origin.
 Art 10: Member state will Implement the necessary measures.

There is also provision of legal advice and health care facilities made
available to the victims. Establish protective homes or shelters for
rehabilitation of victims.

Limitation:

1. Promotes a narrow definition of trafficking limiting it to the purpose

of prostitution of W&C but does not mention other exploitative
forms of labour like domestic work, garment labour, organ trans-
plantation etc.
2. Lack of gender neutrality and narrow substantial scope.
3. Limited geographic remit inadequately covers all form of movement,
coercion and trafficking explosion.
4. Absence of right based approach.
5. Mobility of women and children could affect adversely in the name
of preventing trafficking.
6. No social assistance or victim assistance given

Govt. response:

A. legislative law: Enacting Human Trafficking deterrence and

suppression HTDS Act, 2012 (below 18 minor) (all will be covered
under this law)

Uniqueness of this law: Word trafficking not known earlier, mostly

known as abduction.

- specific definition of HT
- Video conference
- Comprehensive provision for rescuer, repatriation and
rehabilitation
- Money recovered or received out of the offences are present or
portable to be present.
- Burden of proof upon the accused
- Compensation
- Evidence recorded in electronic devices will be granted.
- Separate investigation dept.

B. Institutional development

Setting up of National and district committee.- govt. has set up

inter-ministerial committee at national level headed by Secretary of
Ministry of home affairs. Vigilant task force at the MoEWOW,
Monitoring cells, SOP, RRRI task force cell etc are also been
developed.

Challenges -
 1. No victim and witness protection law
2. Lack of sensitization about the law.
3. Inadequate services for rehabilitation

Good practices -

1. Recommendation : review the convention

2. Distinction of trafficking from voluntary migration
3. Ensure victim immunity from criminal liability
4. Ensure victim and witness protection
5. Forensic Lab and DNA testing facilities
6. Anti trafficking monitoring sell.
7. Create fun for implementation of the convention of the UN Protocol

Undertaken by NGO

1. Capacity building activities

2. Awareness programmes
3. Need base shelter report
4. Assistance during prosecution

Recommendations

1. Ensure victim immunity from criminal liability

2. Ensure victim and witness protection
3. Distinction of trafficking from voluntary migration

Ms. Kabita Bhandari, Shakti Samuha, Shakti Samuha is the world first
organisation run by women trafficking survivors and she shared the
problem of reintegration and challenge. As there is no specific repatriation
in Nepali law, Shakti Samuha is helping the survivors with the assistance
of various NGOs in the repatriation,

She mentions the repatriation process which includes Home assessment

report, where they send vacancy letter. In the process of repatriation of
trafficked victims, the victims are passed across the borders under the
supervision of the CDMO. If there is no effective repatriation, there are
chances of the survivor being trafficked again. They have reintegrated
about 99% trafficked survivors from India till now and India plays a huge
role in helping in the reintegration of survivors. She mentions that there
is need for effective coordination between the Indian and the Nepal Govt.
as there are many more victims still in need of being rescue.
Beenu Maya Gurung, ATWIN (Alliance against Trafficking in Women
and children In Nepal), was established as a network of organisation on
6th June 1997. Its Interventions extends at national level and is the
Member of national committee of trafficking. According to her in Nepal the
Provision of compensation for trafficked survivor is not effective yet, but it
is supposed to be given as rehabilitation from the government.

She again added that SAARC Convention is not effectively implemented.

The scope of the convention must be broadened. According to her the
convention was drafted in 11th SAARC summit in Nepal and the 18th
SAARC summit was hosted in Nepal but It is not into the standard of the
UN protocol, not effective as of yet although it has been drafted.

Reintegration of survivors is done according to the NGO’s protocol, it is

not being monitored and there is no minimum standard of living conferred
for the trafficked survivor. In existing policy, there is still a need for rights
based approach, because there is criminal based approach.

There is no fixed centre or system to process the rescue and rehabilitation

effectively in Nepal. Rehabilitating a survivor costs a lot of money, there
is not enough financial resources provided by the govt.
 Mr Fabric Grossir, Police Commissioner, French embassy at the TIP4 Conclave ,Ranchi

Mr. Fabric Grossir, Police Commissioner, French Embassy, He

presented the session from French national security point of view the role
of which is to tackle any form of organized crime. He added that in recent
years due to Human Trafficking, Sex tourism has been given a boost
where number of women and children both male and female are being
trafficked and forced into the form of slavery.

He said that French paedophile was found in Orissa and arrested later
with the cooperation of Indian police. Earlier there was only one case in
two months that he used to hear but now its 6 - 7 cases in a month that
are coming to his knowledge.

He talked of cases which took place in Nepal, South India (Orissa), Sri
Lanka and also informed about the apprehension of traffickers in Nepal.

He then went on to discuss about a criminal who was 50 years old, he

came all the way from France to India and was in disguise of an educator
tourist, later he was apprehended on the grounds of the criminal record
that he had back in France.

Mr. Grossir, then described his partnership with various NGOs in India like
SAATHI and Shakti Vahini which according to him is very necessary in
order to end the human menace. According to him criminals try to escape
from their nations and ponder at India to get away with convictions but as
per the law of the land any French National have criminal records could be
convicted if it’s proved.
Rodolple Monnet, Counsellor for Social Affairs, French Embassy
talked about the State of knowledge of India from the French perspective
which according to him should be strategy based on preventive and
prevention side. According to him the goal should be to promote
awareness, European Union delegation in India, Support NGOs working at
the grassroots to fight Human Trafficking. He urged to Connect French
corporate and NGO - help NGOs to understand better corporate needs and
CSR requirements. Work with both police (French and Indian) and civil
society and French associates to help decrease this crime.

Mr. Satyajit Ghosh, Missing Child Alert, Implemented in

Bangladesh, India and Nepal. He Talked about four key points i.e.
prevention, protection, repatriation and prosecution. According to him,
there is a need of advocacy, mainly in Nepal and Bangladesh as source
country and India plays as a dual role of source and transit.

According to him, Plan has brought 3 governments together in one

platform to form a dialogue on human trafficking in the context of missing
children. He said that In India, taking West Bengal is one of the most
prone areas in the country as it shared its border with Bangladesh, Nepal
and Bhutan. Therefore, Plan has been extensively working in the areas of
West Bengal conducting community programmes, training programmes
for Police department, and West Bengal taskforce, NIC Delhi, etc to
reduce the rate of vulnerability as it shares a border with Bangladesh.

He concluded by focusing on the issue of missing children which according

to him was missed out in this conclave as trafficking and missing children
are two sides of the same coin. According to him, earlier parents were
scared to register a missing case of their children but with the help of the
civil society and law enforcement agencies more and more cases have
started to be reported. Thus, for him the role of all the stakeholders is
very important and the coordination and collaboration would give a boost
to fight back the social evil.

Mr. Chandra Kumar Ghimire, Consul General, Nepal Consulate,

Kolkata argued that Cross border trafficking started around 1960 during
Cino-Indo war, where brothels were set up by china. According to him,
the trafficking agents have their diplomatic presence in India in Kolkata
and Delhi; they engage their activities with the help of many primary and
secondary stakeholders.

Thus, for him, action is required both sides, in the origin as well as in the
destination. He also stated that the prone areas should be identified and
works should be extended extensively to combat the crime by decreasing
vulnerability.

He during the session recommended for increasing the number of PIL,

come up with Plan of Action, start a war to rescue minor and adolescent
girls. He concluded his session stating that there is the need to change
the mentality combined with strong determination which includes
government and civil societies. According to him, laws are present but
effective implementation is very ardent and challenging.
 Session 3: Initiatives to Combat Human Trafficking- Bihar,
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

(Left to right) Panelist: Mr. Baidyanath, Anti Trafficking Activist, Mr. Y.K Gautam, Jan Jagran Sansthan, Patna,
Ms. Sampat Meena, IG (CID), Jhairkhand (Chair), MR. Franz Gastler, Executive Director, YUVA, Dr. Smita
Gupta, Mahila Samakhya of Jharkhand Sister Jema, Anti Trafficking Activist, Jharkhand in the TIP 4 Conclave,
2015, Ranchi Jharkhand.

Penalists:

• Ms. Sampat Meena, IG (CID) of Jharkhand

• Mr. Franz Gastler, Executive Director of YUVA
• Mr. Y.K Gautam, Jan Jagran Sansthan in Patna
• Mr. Baidnath, Anti-Trafficking Activist
• Dr. Smita Gupta, Mahila Samakhya of Jharkhand
• Ms. Priti Srivastava, UNICEF
• Sister Jema, an Anti Trafficking Activist

Ms. Sampat Meena the first lady IG in Jharkhand state chaired the
session. A 1994 batch IPS officer is known for her work on improving
policing for women and children. Credit goes to her for opening Ranchi’s
only police station dedicated to serve women at Kotwali and a Bal Mitra
police station for children at Gonda and Jagannathpur. As an IG
(organised crime), she also contributed in combating human trafficking.
She received Police Medal for Meritorious Service on the 26th January
2013.

During the session, she apprised the audience on the steps undertaken in
Jharkhand. She, during the discussion, presented the statistics which
portrayed the prone areas and destinations to where trafficking lead to.
Human Trafficking from Jharkhand takes place for various reasons such
as:

• Child labour
• Domestic worker
• Adoption rackets
• Begging
• Illegal recruitment agencies

Ms. Sampat Meena, IG (CID) Jharkhand while addressing the delegates and participants on the initiatives of
the Jharkhand Police to combat trafficking during the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

She also stated News articles, represented that most trafficked victims
are lured in terms of giving better education prospects, better job
opportunity and living. Thus for her, these dimensions have pushed to
design responses with respect to the problem occurred. Adding to it she
argued that in order to combat it the following things are very important
and also an initiative of the State in fighting the organized crime:

• Sensitizing various stakeholders who are directly or indirectly

associated with the team of IG(CID)
• Training and workshops especially for police personnel to impart
knowledge in this field.
• Notified Child Welfare Officers and Special Juvenile Protection Units
existing in Jharkhand
• Bal Mitra Thana Initiative has been undertaken with UNICEF to
instruct Police about the role of Police while dealing with children.
 • End violence campaign is an integral step with UNICEF to
disseminate information in relation to inhumanity towards children.
• Childline, Social Welfare department, and NGOs have taken a step
forward with IG-CID
• Data Base System is the compilation of facts and figures with
respect to this crime
• Anti-human Trafficking Units

According to her identifying stakeholders and their role in the process of

rescue, rehabilitation, and prevention have gained recognition from the
state government. Cordial relations with allies can ensure to overcome
human trafficking.

Other breakthrough is the invention of state resource centres which

simplifies inter-state coordination between allies. Such as inter-state
agencies, railway stations, etc., police officers can find a way through
these resource centres. Besides this, research and analysis also needed to
keep records of each trafficking case. Nevertheless rehabilitation is also
taken care by these centres.

She than presented the Future Plan of Action of the state as:

• Awareness campaign to spread information to locals in rural areas

as this will be a weapon to prevent this concern.
• Creating a central data base system which is accessible in a web
page application
• Effective inter-state agency
• Positioning of rescue team in the vulnerable areas especially in the
destination points of Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, and Kerala.

She ended by stating that any collaborative endeavour can remove the
stains so she is open to join hands with organizations and people working
on the issue.
Mr. Franz Gastler, Executive director and Co-founder of YUWA while addressing the audience during the TIP 4
Conclave, 2015.

Mr. Franz Gastler, Executive and Co-founder of YUWA an NGO which

uses team sport to put girls powerfully in charge of their own futures by
training them in Football. Through football (soccer), Yuwa provides a
platform for young women to make a change in their world- a platform to
combat human trafficking, child marriage and to get girls back into
school. In 2013 he won the 'Indian at Heart' award for training the tribal
girls in football which won the bronze medal at the Gasteiz Cup, an
international tournament for school-age children, which was held at
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

Franz Gastler started his session by thanking Mr. Anurag Gupta, Ms.
Sampat Meena, YUWA girls for making difference in the society. He
proudly shared that YUWA girls have gained ground in football
competitions for participating in international tournaments and also
winning the bronze medal for the Gasteiz Cup an under-14 tournament
held in Spain. According to him, they are the first soccer team in India
who have beaten United States and Spain.

He then discussed about the scholarship funds to empower girls through

football sport. According to him eventually, Indian parents recognize that
this sport is a vehicle of social change to enlighten girls. They are
ambitious and adding value with conviction for other young women.
Nevertheless are inspirational speakers at various events or seminars.
He, appreciating the team effort and the girls who are different to others,
requested them to come to the platform and introduce themselves. The
YUWA girl introduced themselves in English and one has outspoken her
perspective on the given theme. She voiced that human trafficking is rife
in their state in which touts abduct or trick the targets. Subsequently the
traffickers commit crime in order to give an end to their mission. Thus
education is the key to fight this evil and everyone must take ownership
to make a modest contribution to fulfil the need of poverty stricken
population. She proudly said that she through the medium of football has
been empowering herself and dreams that more and more girls come
through the opportunity so that they do not become the soft targets.

Mr. Y.K Gautam, initiated the session honouring Mr. P.M Nair for his
excellence as chief of ATSEC-Bihar chapter. According to him, UN
Women corroborated the organization to pioneer programs in the state. In
2003 the administrative wing did a mapping exercise in Bihar and
accordingly produced a model to crusade against the unprecedented
increase in human trafficking. For him, Jan Jagran Sansthan possesses
effective partnerships with government, judiciaries, police, PRI
representatives, opinion makers and community. In figures 38
administrative and 40 police structures, 115 Non-Governmental
Organizations are present in the districts of Bihar. All these structures and
organisation together have taken responsibilities in different aspects such
as resource materials, publications, activities, etc.

They have coached 20,000 police officers in the districts of the state. In
2006 Mr. P.M Nair and the chief minister of Bihar assisted the NGO in
setting up a pattern for this movement. This is done to generate a
crystallized vision among the stakeholders to bring ease in the process.
Apart from this approached authorities of various districts to illuminate on
the rehabilitation of survivors. When SCRCR was launched, JJS
incorporated this initiative of the government of India. In Bihar there are
9 administrative divisions and each bestows government shelter home for
male and female minors. Jan Jagran Sansthan conducts stakeholders’
meetings to captivate a larger group at transit points, i.e. railway stations
for realizing their roles to combat this evil practice.

According to him, Human Trafficking is a big concern, so an intrinsic step

would be to work in unity. Hence the NGO merges with other
organizations in order to bring an impact in the state. He added, due to
flood in the Kursi village in 2008, the village became trafficker’s point, so
the NGO took joint initiatives with UNICEF, PLAN, and Save the
Children in the rescue and repatriation process. Moreover, the Inter
religious priests’ forum took place where religious leaders advocate
community people to be vigilant when trafficking happens in Bihar.

He concluded stating the stakeholders, working with them in the process

of rescue, prevention, and rehabilitation should identify the modus
operandi of the traffickers and try to plan out action to deal with it. Also
this should be a continuous attempt to attain freedom from this issue.
Dr. Smita Gupta, State Program Director, Jharkhand Mahila
Samakhya a commendable program for women’s empowerment has
been associated with the program from a decade. She had been
instrumental in training young girls and women in rehabilitating them into
the mainstream.

She started her session stating that Mahila Samakhaya before working on
the issue did a thorough study on human trafficking and its various
dimensions. An outcome has highlighted some areas where they need to
bring attention. So found out that maintaining a data of missing women is
essential. Pamphlets distribution strategy has given an evidence of
number of absconding women in Jharkhand. The figures compel them to
perform a mass campaign with the help of networking groups. That’s how
I.G. and UNICEF formed a connection with Mahila Samakhya.

Aftermath recovering numbers, Mahila Samakhya worked on the

rehabilitation process so adopted ‘Mahila Shikshan Kendra’- a
residential education program for rural women.

Additionally, did a mapping exercise of the state with allies and acquired
best practices of several organizations in their program.

Mahila Samakhya has extended its role in four districts of Jharkhand,

vulnerable to human trafficking. Through survey, could assess on which
panchayat they can access to and subsequently brought the issue before
Gram Sabha to combat trafficking.

Finally she mentioned to commence a common forum to perceive to

overcome challenges and move along with a political will in the presence
of a stable government.

Mr. Baidnath Kumar, Social Worker Divya Sewa Sanstha and Anti Trafficking Activist while discussing about the
problem of Human Trafficking in Jharkhand during the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.
Mr. Baidnath Kumar, Social Worker Divya Sewa Sanstha has been
effectively working on the issue of human trafficking in association with
CID, Jharkhand. He is instrumental in sensitizing Police Officers and also
conducting awareness programmes throughout villages in the State on
the issue.

He started his session stating that he is a follower of Dr. P.M Nair, as he

gathered courage from his book on anti-human trafficking. He still
practices the needful as published in the book. Eventually he assisted the
police to convict 100 traffickers till date and have actively participated in
the rescue operation. By now he has recovered more than 100 missing
girls with the cooperation of ‘Missing Children Helpline’. Besides this,
he also provides details of absconding girls to allies through home
verification. Further police recovers them from shelter homes or where
they were detained and hence unite them with their families.

He ended with a thought provoking note that traffickers are united and we
are divided. Therefore, it’s time to unite as requires accountability of each
person to prevent this evil.

Ms. Priti Srivastava is a Child Protection Officer at UNICEF. She spoke

on spreading mass awareness on prevention of human trafficking, But,
through partnerships with NGOs and trained police department with the
coordination of IG-CID. This synergy has brought a prominent shift which
is gradually gaining momentum and creating a pressure for traffickers.

UNICEF conducts coordination meeting with 8 AHTUs of Jharkhand in

collaboration with DCS, CWC, and SJPU.

Lastly, She highlighted some measures to combat human trafficking

which are as follows:

• To establish committee govern by the Chief Minister for timely

reviews.
• Regulation of placement agency bill.
• Sign MOU between Delhi and Jharkhand.
 Sister Jemma, Anti Trafficking Activist, Jharkhand while sharing her views on the problem of trafficking in
Jharkhand during the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Sister Jemma, drawing inspiration from Mother Teresa, Sister Jemma,

after returning to Jharkhand from Delhi in 2001 started a survey of girls
employed as domestic help in Jharkhand, the result revealed a very pitiful
state of these girls. Experiencing the pitiable condition of the girls being
trafficked, Sister Jemma started the Jharkhand Domestic Worker’s Trust
in 2004. She started her work in Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. She
identified more than 1500 girls from nearby states and registered them
with her trust and ensured that the masters pay them the minimum daily
wages admissible by the state government. Sister Jemma is geared up to
seek cooperation of the state Welfare Department in getting health
insurance and BPL benefits for those girls' families. Today more than 200
girls are employed in the city through the Trust and are earning around
Rs 3000 a month. Sister Jemma is considered to be the mother of the
girls.

Sister Jemma stated that she has closely seen the plight of domestic
workers in her experience as a coordinator of Jharkhand Domestic
Workers' Welfare Trust. She described few cases of human trafficking
where women are trapped from source points and forced to serve as
domestic help. They were sexually exploited by the owners of the house.
The Trust has liberated 700 women from the shackles of this form of
exploitation. Moreover rehabilitation is a challenge for which the trust
started tutoring women so that they can earn their livelihood. The
integrated endeavours of allies have reaped positive results to eliminate
the occurrence of human trafficking. At the end, she said that each
person must act as a responsible citizen to beat the actions of touts.
Young Sita, Football player, YUWA addressing the delegates and participants sharing her experience during the
TIP 4 Conclave, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Questions/Suggestion:

Draft an MOU and authenticate by Jharkhand Government and Delhi

Government to act as per the guidelines. –Suggestion by Nandita Baruah

Question asked by a participant: What is the result of intervention in

this form of exploitation?

Answered by Ms Sampat Meena: Awareness campaigns have extracted

useful resources and in due course with its proper use have reaped that is
sown.

Question asked by a participant: How do you control if information is

going in wrong hands?

Answered by Ms Sampat Meena: The information is not displayed in

public domain.

Question asked by a participant: Is there any action taken by the

state to control boys’ trafficking?

Answered by Ms Sampat Meena: Yes, in fact some of them have been

rescued by the police department.
Question asked by a participant: What are the tactics that you follow
and apply in YUWA which can be implemented by other organizations?
Answered by Mr. Franz Gastler: Empowerment is the key that
motivates girls to participate in planning the activities and diligently work
on the programs and thereby achieve productive outcomes. Hence
vigorous endeavours can reap sweet fruits.

Ms. Helen, LaFave, US Consulate General, Kolkata with the young players of the football team from YUWA,
Jharkhand. The team was able to bag the bronze medal in the Gasteiz Cup held in Spain, 2013
DAY II (March 28, 2015)

Mr. Greg Pardo, Deputy Director, US Consulate General, Kolkata during the TIP 4 Conclave on 28th March, 2015
held in Ranchi Jharkhand.

Session III: Young Voices Against Human Trafficking

• Mr. Greg Pardo, Deputy Director, US Consulate General, Kolkata

(Chair)
• Ms. Debasmita Boral, Student, Delhi University,
• Ms. Soudamini Gupta, National University of Study & Research in
Law, Ranchi
• Mr. Seshanth Vernawal, Social Worker
• Ms. Shubha Tirkey, Social Worker
• Trafficking survivor

The conclave also put forth an opportunity for some young activist to
come forward and share their opinion on the issue. Chaired by Mr. Greg
Pardo few questions were asked on which the young panellists shared
their views.

Question: What inspired you in involving yourself in the issue?

Herein, Mr. Sresnath who had done his Master in Social Work from Jamia
Milia Islamia University and presently working in the field of Child
Protection and Anti Human Trafficking Unit argued that being the native of
Jharkhand and experiencing the situation where large number of women
and children are trafficked for mostly forced labour, child labour etc
convinced him to associate with the field as to him he has a big role to
play in protecting the people from being trafficked and exploited.
According to him, the NGOs have highlighted about the issue which is a
big one and needs to be addressed and Government’s attention sought.

Ms. Shubha Tirkey who has been extensively working for the upliftment
of the tribal girls through Shakti Saheli NGO also argued that being a
tribal adivasi girl herself she is closely involved with the section of society
which is way back to the mainstream which in itself increases their
vulnerability. According to her, the tribal society in Jharkhand are to be
brought and linked with the mainstream, educate young girls and women,
empower them by developing their skills etc so that they too could
amalgamate with the society without any fear. Thus, for her with that
motive she came into the field of Social Work where she focuses
educating children so that the vulnerability of getting trafficked could be
reduced.

The panellist chaired by Mr. Greg Pardo, Director, US Consulate, Kolkata being welcomed during the session on
Young Voices Against Human Trafficking in the TIP 4 Conclave 2015.

Ms. Saudamni Gupta who has been pursuing Law from the National
University of Study & Research in Law, Ranchi argued that she too
belonging to Jharkhand made her experience the plight of the people
wherein children worked hard along with their parents to earn their
livelihood urged her to pursue law so that she could work and fight for the
betterment for the section of people who are innocent and having no
access to the mainstream. Ms. Debasmita Boral who is presently
pursuing Political science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi
University argued that being a student of Social Science since the last 5
years have in itself motivated her in having interest on the issue. She had
been associated with various organizations such as CRY etc wherein she
had done mapping of children forced into child labour in west Bengal and
the scenario had urged her to have interest on the issue and go towards it
in depth.

Question: What are the challenges as youth are you facing if say
politically?

Mr. Seshnath argued that challenges are huge in number. People who
work in the field in rescuing reporting cases of trafficking face lots of
problem as challenges and limitations are associated with civil society
organization. According to him, only raid and rescue is not the important
thing but the problem and challenge is to work on the grassroots from
where women and children are being trafficked due to their vulnerability.
According to him, we are focussed only on rescuing but for him there
should be mechanisms to reach out the people who are actually in need of
awareness. According to Ms. Saudamni Gupta, while talking about
trafficking in persons we are very specific to only few section of the
society which does not at all cover up the category of third gender.
According to her, there is the need for including the third gender within
the ambit of the discussion as to her, this section too are trafficked and
exploited mostly for commercial sexual exploitation and Jharkhand state
has too been witnessing.

Ms. Soudamini Gupta, National University of Study & Research in Law, Ranchi while sharing her views during
the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.
According to Ms. Shubha Tirkey challenges are many. For her the
government should come up with SOPs, policies, mechanisms to develop
the skills of the adivasi youth so that they could also work hard and be
the part of the mainstream society.

Question: What do you think could be the measures in combating

the crime?

Ms. Saudamni Gupta argued that the topic of human trafficking should
be included in the school curriculum so that young girls and children are
aware of the issue since their school which would decrease their
vulnerability of becoming the prey of traffickers. She also emphasized on
the formulation of strong laws. For her legislation is a holistic solution.
Moreover for her economic help from the end of the Government for the
poorer section would also help in reducing their vulnerability.

Ms. Debashmita Boral, Political Science Student, Lady Shri Ram College for women, University of Delhi during
the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Ms. Shubha argued that she had been involved in teaching young kids,
conducting training and meeting with women at choppals etc. She is also
involved in Training young girls in Football through Sakhi Saheli.

A trafficked survivor who was also present during the session voiced
herself stating that she was trafficked to Delhi where she underwent
every form of slavery but however by God’s grace she could escape from
the cage. Therefore, she argued that Jharkhand state should have
stringent laws to fight back the crime that no one like her could be lured
and trafficked exploited by traffickers. She urged that the Government
should have some initiatives to educate them, empower them, train them
so that they become self dependent and could be the prey to those who
are operating throughout to exploit them. She put forth her view that she
wanted to study further and become a Police Officer when she grew up.

A young participant sharing his views on the issue of Human Trafficking in Jharkhand and the role of NGOs
during the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Mr. Shesnath pointed out that 80-90% of the trafficking of girls takes
place below the age of 18 years who later undergoes every kind of
exploitation. Thus for him education, vocational training programmes,
awareness should be organized for them. They should be made aware of
the rights they have and the empowerment they could achieve through
education and training. He gave the example of Kerala where women are
being trained as nurse, who are found across the world is itself an
empowerment that the State had planned for the women. In same way
for him Jharkhand State should also come out with some such plan that
would reduce the rate of exploitation.

Ms. Shubha Tirkey argued that sensitization among the Panchayats is

very important as they are the first hand for the village people whom they
can approach at any time of problem. According to her Panchayats should
maintain a data of the people who are migrating from the village and
have a vigil on it so that no one could be trafficked. Again for her
insurance policies should also being made for the people who migrate to
the cities as when they go out they might meet with any kind of accidents
and if a policy is with them they could be under-burdened.
Question: What innovative software have you used?

Mr. Shesnath argued that social media in itself plays an important role in
generating awareness and remaining update. According to him, through
Whatsapp they have been involved in many groups where they share
information regarding quick access, contact numbers of Jharkhand Police,
sharing of information on Human Trafficking through Facebook and also
operating a webpage where all important contact numbers of Jharkhand
Police, CWCs, latest court orders are being shared etc.

Delegates and Participants during the second day of the TIP 4 Conclave held on 28th March, 2015 in Hotel
Radisson Blu, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
 Session II: Institutional Responses to Human Trafficking

(Left to Right) Panellist: Mr. Rajiv Kumar Roy, Humming Bird Foundation (Chair), Ms. Sankalita Shome, DNET
Dhaka Missing Child Alert-PLAN, Ms. Swasti Rana, UNODC Initiatives, Ms. Bharti Birla, ILO- Work in Freedom,
Ms. Gargi Saha, UNICEF Member in Chhattisgarh, Ms. Lopa Bhattacharya, TDHMs during the session
“Institutional responses to Human Trafficking on the 2nd day of the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Panelists :

• Mr. Rajiv Kumar Roy, Humming Bird Foundation (Chair)

• Ms. Sankalita Shome, DNET Dhaka Missing Child Alert-PLAN
• Ms. Swasti Rana, UNODC Initiatives
• Ms. Gargi Saha, UNICEF Member in Chhattisgarh
• Ms. Lopa Bhattacharya, TDHMs.
• Ms. Bharti Birla, ILO- Work in Freedom

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Roy, Humming Bird Foundation chaired the session.
He is currently the Lead – India Program at The Hummingbird Foundation,
a Charity company registered in the UK. He has over 13 years of work
experience across both national and international non-profit in South Asia
and with Government sector in India. He has significantly worked on the
issue of human trafficking apart from child rights and gender. He has
demonstrated competence in situational analysis, project & financial
management, advocacy and research on issues relating to Human
Trafficking, Child Protection, Education, Women Empowerment, etc.
Ms. Bharti Birla is a National project coordinator of the program “Work
In Freedom” in the International Labor Organization. Her prime domains
of intervention are ‘prevention’ and ‘safe migration’. During the session,
she delivered a gist about the corporation and the undertakings of the
project. The ‘International Labour Organization’ is a tripartite UN agency
with members from 185 states comprise of employers, government, and
trade unions. Its major role is to develop conventions and standards of
International labour issues. With due regard to authentication, each
country formulates laws in relation to these conventions. In 1930, the
convention drawn in favor of force labour and human trafficking is
bonafide till present. Under this convention, forced labour means any
work or service coerce to any person under the menace of penalty.
Aftermath another convention 105 is formed in 1957 and then new
protocol came in 2014 as a supplement to convention 29. The protocol
supported by India, involves trafficking in persons for the purposes of
labour and also emphasizes on prevention. One of the measures of
prevention is educating, especially the vulnerable cohort to bring change
in the community. Besides re-victimization is not permitted in any kind of
labour work and these measures is applicable for all. According to the
global estimate computed by ILO in 2012, states that 20.9 million people
are into forced labour and majorly found in Asia Pacific region. Private
economy consists 90% of forced labour which further breaks into two
forms, i.e. 68% engaged in forced labour and 22% in sex trafficking. The
statistics empowered ILO to launch ‘Work In Freedom’ program which
aims at five areas. Women empowerment is one of its aim where women
makes decisions in:

• Migration
• Alternative opportunities available in their villages
• Prior knowledge about the destination of employment
• Use of technology

Ms. Lopa Bhattacharya, TDHMs, Kolkata and Ms. Gargi Saha, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh during the second day of
the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.
Ms. Lopa Bhattacharya serves the TDH organization in the field of child
trafficking and protection of child rights for 15 years. She enlightened the
audience on TDH foundation, its objectives, and initiatives on sustainable
livelihood. Their work, mainly directs on child rights and its protection and
chiefly concentrate on child trafficking program. In India, they initiated in
2005 and the entry of child protection mandate has been through child
trafficking. They enhance the care standards to uplift the recovering
victims from the ambit of trafficking.

In Jharkhand and West Bengal, TDH invest funds to its partner

organizations which are specialised in trafficking sector for many years.
Capacity building, re-integration practices for survivors, and prioritizing
their needs and interests during the process are the strategies of TDH. At
the time of intervention, TDH observed partners accumulating resources
either from within their particular establishments or any external source
functioning on social issues. Moreover these anti-trafficking collaborators
must associate with corporations that run livelihood programs. So they
integrate their resources for livelihood of survivors.

The core sector of TDH within this capacity building support is primarily
on mental health. The mergers provide mental health aid either from their
existing resources or other health corporations. Another area that TDH
look after is the mental health perspective which has been ignored during
the formation of livelihood program for survivors. Therefore TDH are
trying to assemble tools to fulfil the mental health needs of the survivors.
Besides it is an emerging trend and it will take some years to overcome.

Their project in Jharkhand and West Bengal is a voluntary activity of

NGOs who integrates their effort through participation in a joint learning
forum.

Ms. Gargi Saha is a child protection officer in UNICEF, Chattisgarh

expertise exclusively in legislations and interventions on children. She
illuminates the spectators on initiatives in the districts of Chattisgarh,
Jashpur. UNICEF launched the contravention of girl trafficking program in
Jashpur district. The members could facilitate information, to strengthen
police as well as judiciary to combat this issue, to the district
administration. The program started its operation with 5 blocks and they
could recover more than 1000 affected trafficked victims. Apart from this
there are prominent initiatives in the district like:

• Missionary organizations
• Prominence of placement agency act (2013)
• Prevalence of SOPs on missing children
• Training of more than 2000 police officials on POCSO, Juvenile
Justice Act and human trafficking

Multi-stakeholder approach has changed the phase of district due to

immense participation of stakeholders such as media, NGOs like Shakti
Vahini, police etc. Without their endeavours, the survivors could not gain
justice of their rights. This act of benevolence has been able to rescue
more than 90% of trafficked children with Supreme Court order.

Ms. Sankalita Shome, DNET Dhaka Missing Child Alert-PLAN discussing about the software to track Missing
Children and Ms. Swasti Rana, UNODC Initiatives during the second day of the TIP 4 Conclave, Ranchi,
Jharkkhand.

Sankalita Shome was posted as a corporate lawyer for 7 years and

currently employed on social sector. She is leading the missing child alert
project in DNET. The project manager put forth points on case
management system and its features underlined in the project.

She informed that DNET, pay particular attention on social development,

based in Bangladesh. Our focus is predominantly on technological
interventions. It develops a mechanism in the field of prevention,
protection and prosecution of women and children. Implementation of
project credits to Plan International and this undertaking is based on
India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The prone areas of human trafficking are
Bangladesh and Nepal from where the vulnerable victims are transported
to another destination. For this reason, MCA project covers one of its
main features which is the use of technology to fight this issue.

After assessing the eco system to attain the needs of organizations which
solely focus on trafficking matters, uniform case management system has
been created. Through this analysis, repatriation came into account in the
phenomenon of cross-border child trafficking. This process takes a long
time due to which survivors are placed in shelter homes. These homes are
like cage where survivors do not have means of approach to family and
livelihood. Therefore this happens as there are multiple actors performing
their actions in this procedure. Coordination between stakeholders plays a
vital role to prevent this prolonged exercise. For this purpose case
management system is the model. The attributes of the model are as
follows:

• Web page application

• Unique identification number for each case
• Assimilate all documents at one place
• Pop up notifications and reminders to SOPs for time management
involved in the process

Through this system uniformity can be gained within various state and
non-state actors. At present DNET is working with NGOs who if adopts the
system can verify the time lag require in the process of repatriation. Thus
the success of the system can rope in other actors.

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Roy, Humming Bird Foundation and Ms. Sankalita Shome, DNET Dhaka Missing Child Alert-
PLAN during the TIP 4 Conclave.

Swasti Rana is responsible for interventions on anti-human trafficking.

She has contributed service for 14 years and now holds a position of
project officer in UNODC. As a panellist of this session, she expressed
views on the kinds of intervention run with her project.

The UNODC office for South Asia is established in New Delhi and it
accounts in six countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and
Sri Lanka. Action Research, a project of NHRC has brought attention to
rapid awareness in law enforcement personnel. This enforced UNODC to
form a tripartite structure with US department, Ministry of Home Affairs
(Govt. of India). Underneath this project, efforts of various associates are
put together to Conduct training, rehabilitation of survivors, etc.

UNODC has partnerships with ILO of the work in freedom project and
state government to organize trainings for police and labour officers.
Besides, they have relations with TDH, UN and US department targeting
on the prohibition of a common subject. Also they have built MOUs with
Australia on issues centre to migration, smuggling, and trafficking.

To conclude, this conclave is a gift where everyone can bring their views
and create a network with other sectors to combat human trafficking.

Questions/Suggestions:

Question asked by a participant: Marg Foundation has done

tremendous work in Darjeeling on anti-trafficking sector. Why there has
been no representation in the hills of Darjeeling till date as it is the source
area of human trafficking?

Answer given by Panellist: North Bengal faces many challenges as

intervention does not account in these areas. But Ms. Lopa will bring in
perspectives and make a call on this cause in the next conclave.

Question asked by a participant: Why is there no compulsion of green

card application for migrant labours?

Answer given by Ms. Bharti: Red card and green card scheme ensures
the security of migrant labours so every migrant must register themselves
before reaching to their work of destination. Also migrant resource
centres should be situated in every state to combat trafficking.

Question asked by a participant: Why are Judiciaries not pro-active?

Answer given by Ms. Gargi Saha and Ms. Swasti Rana): Earlier
UNICEF has failed to incorporate judiciaries in line of association. But later
could rope in these systems in states like Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.
With debate on trafficking concerns, Supreme Court has given order to
regulate State legal authority services. Due to SLAS, the High court has
listed human trafficking in the top preferences. Further educating
judiciaries is a must and set up fast track courts on human trafficking
issues.
Closing Ceremony: Addressed by Hon. Chief Minister of Jharkhand,
Mr. Raghubar Das

Ms. Helen LaFave, US Consulate General, Kolkata while greeting the Hon. Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri
Raghubar Das on TIP 4 Conclave held on 28th March, 2015 in Ranchi Jharkhand.

The Hon. Chief Minister addressing the audience on the last day of the
two day Conclave lauded efforts of Shakti Vahini and US Consulate for
organizing the two day conclave on the one of the most serious issue of
Human Trafficking which the state has been seriously facing. He said that
the reasons for the menace are poverty, unemployment and so forth
which the Government is trying to deal with. Appreciating the happening
of the Conclave, the Hon. Chief Minister argued that the convergence
between NGOs, Government and various Departments is very necessary.

According to him Jharkhand is a state full of resources but it is not being

utilized full-fledged for generating employment facilities for the youths of
the place and due to this people are migrating in search of work outside
the state and due to this human trafficking is also taking place, women
and children being the most vulnerable ones. Thus, for him, in order to
reduce it, generating employment as well as development in the state is
necessary. Adding to it, he said, "Chhattisgarh and Delhi have anti-
trafficking measures as far as the Placement agencies’ role is concerned.

We will also make a Placement Agency Act and would be effective

by 2015-16 to stop human trafficking that not only exploits people
economically but also exploits them mentally and physically,"
Again, "I have come to know that brokers give the victims only Rs 2,000
to Rs 3,000 (per month as salary) instead of the actual promise of Rs
12,000-Rs 13,000, taking away the rest amount. There are also reports
that brokers have purchased land by the money they have earned by
trafficking of women and children.

Hon. Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shri Raghubar Das being felicitated by Mr. Ravi Kant. President, Shakti Vahini
during the closing ceremony of the two day TIP Conclave held on 28th March, 2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Thus, Government would bring an Act which will allow seizure of

such land and later on which Schools and training centres will be
constructed, he said. According to him Skill Development is one of the
main ways through which Trafficking could be get away with. By
developing the skills of the people it will lead to generation of
employment facilities to them and this will also help the people to work
within the State and not migrate to others. He, citing the initiative by the
Hon. Prime Minister of India, Shri Narender Modi on “Make in India”, he
said that following the path Jharkhand would also initiate “Make in
Jharkhand” Mission. According to him apart from Skill development,
Education is very necessary as to him, education leads to knowledge and
knowledge leads to honesty. Therefore, he urged for enrolling more and
more children in the school and boosting them to pursue education. He
also during his speech stressed on the role of CSRs. He also said that the
state government would also launch a helpline number in Delhi in
association with Jharkhand Bhawan and Shakti Vahini so that
source and destination could be linked without any delay and full
support could be given to the victims. He also said that animal husbandry
would be built in villages so that women could be empowered and the
dairy products that are produced could be sold off and it would set as a
medium of employment. He concluded his session by urging for
collaboration of the NGOs with the Government so that the human
menace could be combated.

Shri Ashok Bhagat, who was recently awarded Padmashree argued

the Placement Agency Act is one of the most needed law to prevent
Human trafficking from Jharkhand State. Appreciating the initiative that
the Hon. Chief Minister have been planning to execute to combat
trafficking, he said that convergence is very necessary and the
Government is ready to collaborate in order to fight Back the organized
crime and build a safe and secured place for women and children of the
state. He also appreciated the effort of Shakti Vahini and US Consulate

Ms. Helen LaFave, US Consulate General, Kolkata during the closing ceremony of the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Ms. Helen LaFave argued that objective of the Conclave was to discuss
about the big and serious issue of human trafficking and how it could be
combated together and also to partner with the Carlson Group. Praising
the Commitment of the honourable Chief Minister to end trafficking,
LaFave said getting registration act for placements agencies is a key part
of dealing with trafficking which the two day Conclave was addressing to
combat Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking is an organized crime and
therefore she urged to come together and raise voice to combat the
crime. She thanked the Hon. Chief Minister for his presence in the
Conclave and addressing the participants that had gathered across the
world. The daylong session ended with a brief discussion of the parallel
sessions that took place the previous day.

Hon. Chief Minister of Jharkhand Shri Raghubar Das and Ashok Bhagat, Social Worker and Activist and also a
recent Padmashree Awardee during the closing ceremony of the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.

Hon. Chief Minister of Jharkhand Shri Raghubar Das during his key note speech addressing the issue of Human
Trafficking during the Closing Ceremony of the TIP 4 Conclave held in Radisson Blu Hotel, Ranchi on 28th
March, 2015.
Mr. Ravi Kant, President, Shakti Vahini during the Closing Ceremony of the TIP 4 Conclave held on 28th March
2015, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Ms. Ambika Pandit, Times of India, Delhi and ----- in the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015, Ranchi Jharkhand.
Mr. Rakesh Sengar, Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Ms. Tiffany Williams, Social Worker, USA in the TIP 4
Conclave, 2015, Ranchi Jharkhand
 MEDIA REPORTS

The U.S. Consulate General Kolkata in association with NGO Shakti

Vahini hosted the 4th Annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP)
Conclave: Working Together to Combat Human Trafficking in Ranchi. The
Conclave brought together key stakeholders from India, Bangladesh,
Nepal, France and the United States to strengthen partnerships to combat
trafficking in persons in the region. Sessions on Cross border
terrorism, CSR for rehabilitation of survivors, Media responses to
human trafficking, State responses to human trafficking,
Initiatives to combat human trafficking in Bihar, Jharkhand
Chattisgarh, Young voices against human trafficking and
Institutional responses to human trafficking were attended by about
250 participants including government delegates, law enforcement
officials, civil society organizations, business leaders, media and
multilateral organization representatives. The Conclave was successful in
identifying the way forward for a coordinated regional response to
trafficking in persons and strengthened international and regional
collaboration.

Extensive media coverage of the 2-day Anti-TIP Conclave in the print and
electronic media enabled Post to reach 20 million readers/viewers. The
Concluding Plenary session with Jharkhand Chief Minister as the Chief
Guest and Keynote Speaker was telecast live by the TV channels in the
region. Consul General Helen LaFave’s Op-ed on human trafficking
published in leading Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar (Readership: 1.5
million) helped Post to amplify USG message on human trafficking. Media
reports on human trafficking have continued to appear in Jharkhand and
New Delhi as a follow-up of the anti-TIP Conclave.

Consul General Helen LaFave participated in a recorded talk show of

regional TV channel Naxatra News where she spoke about the 4th Anti-
TIP Conclave organized in Ranchi, which reached 1 million viewers in
Jharkhand and Bihar.

Partnering with Ranchi’s leading private FM Radio station Big FM resulted

in being able to promote the Conclave and the issues for five days leading
up to the inaugural session. The Radio also recorded and aired APAO
Greg Pardo and U.S. Speaker Tiffany Williams’ interview on human
trafficking in their popular breakfast show on the very first day of Anti-TIP
Conclave, reaching two million listeners. They also aired sound bites of
key speakers of the Conclave including Consul General Helen
LaFave, Ravi Kant, President Shakti Vahini, Dr PM Nair, Anti-trafficking
expert, Rakesh Senger, Bachpan Bachao Aandolan,Biju Mathew,
Director International Justice, Baidyanath Kumar, Anti-Trafficking
activist, Aradhana Singh, Police officer of Anti trafficking unit among
others. State run All India Radio Ranchi also aired a capsule on the
Fourth Anti-TIP Conclave reaching another four million listeners.
 MEDIA COVERAGE
PRINT MEDIA

ENGLISH DAILIES
The Times of India
Hindustan Times
The Telegraph
Pioneer
The Statesman
Morning India

HINDI DAILIES
Prabhat Khabar
Hindustan
Dainik Jagran
Dainik Bhaskar
Aaj
Ranchi Express
Sanmarg

URDU DAILIES
Akhbar-e-Mashriq
Farooqui Tanzeem
Quami Tanzeem

WIRE SERVICES
PTI
UNI

TV CHANNELS

NATIONAL
Doordarshan
Zee News

REGIONAL

ETV Bihar/Jharkhand

Sahara Samay Bihar/Jharkhand

Naxatra News, Bihar/Jharkhand

Taaza TV
 LOCAL

News 11

Kashish News

Satyam News

RADIO

92.7 Big FM

All India Radio Ranchi

As a part of the the Two Day Conclave, a special Dinner was also
organized in the honour of Four Women Police Officer who made
an incredible effort in rescuing victims of human Trafficking and
prosecuting various Traffickers.

(Left to Right) Insp. Sarvari Bhatacharya, AHTU, CID, West Bengal, SI Mallika Banerjee, AHTU, Jashpur,
Chhattisgarh, SI Aradhna Singh, AHTU Khunti, Jharkhand and Insp. Surrinder Jeet Kaur, ACP, Delhi Police
during their honoring ceremony for their incredible service in combating Human Trafficking during the TIP 4
Conclave held on 27th March, 2015 in Radisson Blu Hotel, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Insp. Surrinder Jeet Kaur, ACP, Delhi Police being honoured by Ms. Helen LaFave, US Consulate General,
Kolkata and SI Mallika Banerjee, AHTU, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh being honoured by Mr. Rameshwar Oran, Hon.
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes during the hounoring ceremony of the Four Women
Police Officers in the TIP 4 Conclave, 2015.
The details of the officers being honored in the programme are as follows:

spector Sarbari Bhatacharya, Anti Human Trafficking Unit,

Criminal Investigation Department, West Bengal

Inspector SarbariBhatacharya is presently posted as Officer-In –Charge,

Anti Human Trafficking Unit, Criminal Investigation Department, West
Bengal. She is known for her incredible work that she had done in
rescuing number of children and women being trafficked to various parts
of the country from West Bengal. She had also been one of the top most
Police Officers in apprehending many
trafficking agents involved in the trade.

Breaking all prejudices, Inspector

Bhatacharya joined the Police Department in
the year 1989. She underwent Training at
Police Training College at Barrackpur
(Presently Known As Swami Vivekananda
State Police Academy). Since then she had
been actively rendering her services to the
Police Department. Setting an example of an
empowered woman, Inspector Sarbari
Bhattacharya added remarkable
achievements in her 25 years old career as
an Police officer. In 2003 She won the West
Bengal State Police Medal for Completing 10
years of Meritorious Service. In 2011 she was honored with the Indian
Police Medal by the then Hon’ble President of India, Ms. PratibhaPatil. She
also grabbed the appreciation from the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Calcutta
High Court, Shri J.N. Patel for being able to crack three Habeas Corpus
cases in recovering three minor victims. Again in 2012 she was rewarded
as the Best Investigation Officer Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal.
She was also honoured by the “Aparajita” Award for The Field Of
Administration by Sanmarg Newspaper.
Inspector Surrinder Jeet Kaur, Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Delhi Police

Running against the motion of circumstances, where parents were not

willing to send their daughters into Police services, Inspector
SurrinderJeet Kaur proved herself and become the topper of her batch by
winning 1st prize in Law.

In services of 30 years, she succeeded in establishing her own identity as

a police officer. She has been posted
as SHO in Lodhi Road and Kamla
Market Police Station. She succeeded
in rescuing more than 110 girls from
the brothels of G.B Road and around
90 minors working as child labor in
various industries. She performed
outstandingly when she was posted in
SPUWC Nankpura where she was
handling cases of dowry & Domestic
Violence, providing Counselling and
mediation to the victims.

When it comes to achievements and

awards, she has been honored by the
following:

• In 2011, Kamla market Police Station was awarded as Best Police

Station under her Supervision.
• In 2012 she won the President Police Medal for her merit based
service.
• In March 2014, due to her extra ordinary services, she promoted as
the ACP-New Delhi.

She is dedicated, intelligent and determined Police Officer. She is a

instrumental in building NGO-Police partnership to combat trafficking of
minor girls and women for commercial sexual exploitation. She is known
for her motherly care to victims. She was successful in bringing more
than 7 convictions in cases of trafficking while more cases are under trail.
Sub-Inspector Aradhna Singh, In-charge AHTU, Khunti, Jharkhand

Starting her career in the Police Department after becoming a mother,

Sub-Inspector Aradhna Singh is presently the In-charge of Anti Human
Trafficking Unit, Khunti, Jharkhand. Born and brought up in Ranchi, Sub-
Inspector Aradhna Singh had an experience of travelling throughout Bihar
and Jharkhand (before Bihar) due to the nature of her father’s job as an
Government official.

After getting married she with

the encouragement and support
of her husband and in-laws
mainly her mother-in-law, she
continued her studies. Since her
childhood she always dreamt of
acquiring a position which would
give her power through which
she could contribute to the
society. Inspired by the first
lady IPS officer, Kiran Bedi,
Insp. Singh determined to
become a Police Officer.

She joined the Police

Department in the year in 1992.
She was first posted in Ranchi
District. There when she was
posted in the Women Police Station (Mahila PS) she came across the issue
of Human Trafficking and since then had been closely involved in breaking
trafficking rackets and rescuing children and women trafficked from
Jharkhand.

Sub-Inspector Aradhna Singh has been closely working with a network

with source as well as destination stakeholders. With a thought, “Sab meri
beti hai, agar wo kho jaye to unko dundke lana hai (every child is my
child if they go missing then they are to be brought back), Sub-Inspector
Aradhna Singh have succeeded in rescuing number of children and
women trafficked from Jharkhand. She had also earned accolades for
breaking a number of trafficking cases and had apprehended aroung 20
high profile traffickers accused for trafficking of more than 1000 children
and young girls from Jharkhand like Panna Lal, Baba Bamdev, Bharti
Nag,Gayatri Yadav being in the top of the list.
Sub Inspector Mallika Banerjee, Anti Human Trafficking Unit,
Jashpur, Chattisgarh

Born and brought up in Korea district of Chhattisgarh,Ms. Mallika

Banerjeedid her Graduation from Lahiri College, Korea. Imbibing
leadership quality since childhood she joined Chhattisgarh Police in the
year 2008 as a Lady Sub- Inspector. In the few years of her career, Ms
Baneerjee won the award of the Best Lady Cammando in the Jungle War
training held in Kanker in 2010.

Since 2011, she has been posted at Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh and
had been handling cases of Trafficking in Persons. Just sticking to her role
as nabbing criminals and solving
cases as a Police Officer, Ms.
Banerjee has gone one step more
by intermingling with the common
people, visiting trafficking prone
zones of the State and holding
Awareness Programmesamong the
village people on the issue of
Human Trafficking as part of a
prevention initiative.

Recently, she has succeeded in

gaining appraisal for being able to
rescue around 20 children who
were trafficked from Jashpur district
to Delhi. Apart from rescuing the
children she also conducted multiple search operations in the month of
November and December 2014 in Delhi and apprehended around 15
traffickers associated with various cases. Among them is the
apprehension of one Guddu, a trafficking kingpin accused for trafficking
various children and women to Delhi from Chhattisgarh. Presently, she is
serving as the Station House Officer in Farshbahar Police Station, Jashpur
district in Chattisgarh.
SI Mallika Banerjee, AHTU, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh and SI Aradhna Singh, AHTU, Khunti, Jharkhand during the
hounoring ceremony in the TIP 4 Conclave held on 27th March, 2015, Ranchi Jharkhand.

Insp. Surrinder Jeet Kaur, ACP, Delhi Police being honoured by Ms. Helen LaFave, US Consulate General during
the TIP 4 Conclave.
 RECOMMENDATIONS:

1) Partnership between State Agencies as well Inter-State Agencies

such as Government, Civil Society Organizations, Police
Department, Education Department, Women and Child Development
Department, Labour Department needs to be strengthened.
2) Sharing of data on Missing children, Missing women, Number of
cases registered, Number of cases reported, Number of women and
children traced/untraced etc. with the Government.
3) Media to play an active role in right based reporting cases of human
trafficking.
4) Chapter on Human Trafficking to be included in the school
curriculum.
5) The State should enact laws on Regulation of Placement Agencies.
6) Inter-state MOUs to be built up between West Bengal and
Jharkhand Government so that both can sit together and work on
bringing policies on reducing the vulnerability of trafficking in
persons mostly of women and children.
7) Carlson Group of Hotels to partner with Shakti Vahini to work on the
rehabilitation of trafficking survivors.
8) Jharcraft to initiate the programme of training and skill development
of 30 trafficked survivors to empower them.
9) State Government of Jharkhand should come up with State Plan of
Action to combat Trafficking in persons.
10) Police training to be conducted throughout the state to sensitize
Police Officers in handling cases of trafficking.
11) Panchayats to maintain data of people migrating outside the village
and have a vigil on it whether they are being trafficked or in what
ways.
12) Promote and encourage regional media reporting, training them on
rights based reporting.
13) Cross boarder partnership should be promoted and strengthened.
14) Intensifying of PILs so that rescue of victims could be increased.
15) Formulation of SOPs very necessary between Nepal and India and
also Bangladesh.
16) Linkage between source and destination is very important to
combat trafficking and it is possible only through united thinking and
approach.
 Annexure-A

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

27 March 2015 Friday

08:00AM- 9:00AM Registrations
09:00AM-10:00AM Inaugural Welcome: Formal Inauguration & Lighting of the
Program Lamp

EMILIA • Welcome Remarks by Mr.Greg Pardo, U.S.

HALL Consulate Kolkata
• Smt Loius Marandi, Hon. Minister for Women and
Child Govt. of Jharkhand.
• Mr. Rameshwar Oraon, Hon. Chairperson National
Commission for Scheduled Tribes, Govt of India
(Guest Of Honor)
• Ms.Neera Yadav ,Hon. Education Minister, Govt.
of Jharkhand
• Dr PM Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking Expert & TATA
Chair Professor ,TISS Mumbai
• Ms. Helen LaFave, US. Consul General, U.S.
Consulate General, Kolkata.

(The Introductions to the Guest to be done by Ms Jacinta

Kerketta –a young journalist from Jharkhand who has
done several stories on Human Trafficking)
10:00AM-10:15AM TEA BREAK
10.15AM-11.45AM EMILIA HALL Human Trafficking Dimensions

• Human trafficking in India with Special Reference

to Jharkhand-Dr. PM Nair , IPS (Key Note
Speaker)
• Trafficking in Persons a Human Rights Issue – Ms
Tiffany Williams, Social Worker and Beyond
Survival Campaign Organizer, National Domestic
Worker Alliance, United States. (Key Note
Speaker)
• Initiatives for Safe Migration in Jharkhand,
Mr.Rajib K Haldar, Additional Director, CINI
• Mr Biju C. Matthew, Director, International Justice
Mission, Kolkata
• Mr. Anurag Gupta, IPS, I.G. Jharkhand Police to
Chair the Session

(Key Note Speakers will speak for 10 Minutes and the

rest Speakers for 5 Minutes)
11.45AM- 13.15PM EMILIA HALL Law Enforcement/State responses to Human
trafficking

• Mr. S.N. Pradhan, ADG CID- Jharkhand Police

Initiatives (Key Note Speaker)
• Mr Manabendra Nath Mandal , ATSEC (Key Note
Speaker)
• Ms Mridula Sinha, Special Secretary , MWCD &
Social Welfare
• Ms Ranjana Kumari ,Mmember ,SCPCR
,Jharkhand
• Mr Girja Shankar Jaiswal , IPS SP Jashpur
 • Trafficking In Jharkhand- Sanjay Mishra (Member
Jharkhand Commission for Child Rights)
• Sharmistha Das, Jt. Secretary, Govt. of WB
• Mr. AT Mishra , Managing Director , Jharcraft

(Key Note Speakers will speak for 10 Minutes and the

rest Speakers for 5 Minutes)
13.15PM-14.15 PM LUNCH
14.15 PM-16.00PM Parallel Session Safe Migration and Labor Trafficking

IRIS • Secretary Labor, Govt. of Jharkhand

• Mr. Manish Ranjan, Labor Commissioner,
Jharkhand
• Mr. Rakesh Senger, Bachpan Bachao Andolan
• Ms. Nandita Baruah, Asia Foundation Nepal
• Mr. Sanjay Mishra, Member SCPCR Jharkhand
• Dr PM Nair, Chair

14.15 PM-16.00PM Parallel Session Media Responses to Human trafficking-Rights

Based Media Reporting
ASTOR
• Ms. Sonali Das,Times of India,Ranchi
• Ms. Ambika Pandit, Times of India, Delhi
• Mr. Sanjay Mishra ,Editor Prabhat Khabar Patna
• Mr. Pankaj Sharma,Telegraph Guwahati
• Mr Faizan Haider,Hindustan Times ,New Delhi
• Ms. Claudia Soreng, All India Radio
• Kisalaya, Senior Journalist(Chair)

14.15 PM-16.00PM Parallel Session Rehabilitation of Survivors: Corporate Social

Responsibility
EXORA-2
• Mr Digamber Narzary, NEDAN
• Mr AT Mishra , Managing Director , Jharcraft
• Survivor – 2 Representative
• Chamber of Commerce
• Soni Mehta, Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce
• Ms Sita Swansi, Secretary ,Diya Sewa,
Sanstha,Jharkhand

14.15 PM-16.00PM Parallel Session Responses to Cross Border Trafficking & SAARC
Protocol
EXORA-1
• Ms Towhida Khondker,Advocate BNWLA
• Ms Kabita Bhandari, SHAKTI SAMUHA
• Ms. Beenu Maya Gurung ATWIN
• Ms Kavita Bhandari, Shakti Samuha
• Mr .Fabrice GROSSIR (Police Commissioner,
French Embassy - New Delhi)
• Mr. Satyajit Ghosh, Missing Child Alert Plan Plan
• Mr. Chandra Kumar Ghimire, Consul General ,
Nepal Consulate, Kolkata
• Mr Rajesh Mani, Manav Seva Sanstha (Chair)

16.00PM-16.20PM TEA BREAK

16.20PM-17.30PM EMILIA HALL Initiatives to Combat Human Trafficking-Bihar
Jharkhand & Chhattisgarh

• Ms Sampat Meena, IG CID Anti Human Trafficking

Unit, Jharkhand (Key Note Speaker & Chair)
• Mr. Franz Gastler ,Executive Director, YUVA
• Mr. YK Gautam,Jan Jagran Sansthan, Patna
• Mr. Baidnath, Anti Trafficking Activist , Diya Seva
Sanstha
• Dr Smita Gupta, Mahila Samakhya, Jharkhand
• Sister Jema, Ranchi

19.30PM-21.00PM POOL SIDE-HOTDinner and Felicitation to Women AHTU Officers

RADISSON • Ms Aradhana Singh, AHTU Khunti

• Ms Mallika Bannerjee, AHTU Jashpur
• Ms Sarbari Bhatacharya, AHTU West Bengal
• Ms Surinder Jeet Kaur, ACP Delhi Police

Brief Cultural Program for 15 Minutes on Empowerment

of Women
28 March 2015 Saturday
10.00AM-10.30 AM EMILIA HALL Young Voices Against Human Trafficking

• Ms Debasmita Boral, Lady Shriram College ,Delhi

• Ms Soudamini Gupta, National University of Study
& Research in Law, Ranchi
• Seshanth Vernawal
• Shubha Tirkey
• Mr Nitin Verma,Indian Institute of Management

10.30M-11.30 AM EMILIA HALL Institutional responses to Human Trafficking

• Ms Sankalita Shome- DNET Dhaka Missing Child

Alert-PLAN
• Ms Swasti Rana- UNODC Initiatives
• Ms Gargi Saha-UNICEF,CHATTISGARH
• Ms Lopa Bhattacharya, TDH
• Ms Bharti Birla ILO –Work in Freedom
• Mr Rajiv Kumar Roy , Humming Bird
Foundation - Chair

11.30 AM – 12.45PMEMILIA HALL Discussions on Parallel Sessions

• Ms Hasina Kharbhih, IMPULSE NGO Network ,

Meghalaya
• Mr Rakesh Senger, Bachpan Bachao Aandolan
• Ms Ambika Pandit, Times of India
• Ms Rashmila Shakya , CWIN
• Mr Ashok Bhagat , Padmashree , Secretary , Vikas
Bharti (Chair)

11.30AM-12.00 AM TEA BREAK


12.00 AM-13.00 PM EMILIA HALL
13.00PM-13.15 PM EMILIA HALL
Closing Ceremony
• Shri Raghubar Das ,Honorable Chief Minister,
Govt. of Jharkhand
• Ms. Helen LaFave, Consul General, U.S. Consulate
, Kolkata.
• Dr PM Nair, IPS Anti Trafficking Expert & TATA
Chair Professor ,TISS Mumbai
• Mr Ravi Kant, President ,Shakti Vahini
(The Introductions to the Guest to be done by Ms Jacinta
Kerketta –a young journalist from Jharkhand who has
done several stories on Human Trafficking)
The Way Forward & Vote of Thanks
Mr Greg Pardo