India working to stop women, child trafficking: Maneka Gandhi

Posted by: 2016-04-20 03:53:50 ,
By Raj Kumar

India is in the process of finding a solution to thwart trafficking of women and children from Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said here on Monday.

Gandhi, who inaugurated the "Regional Conference of North Eastern States on Child Adoption" here, also directed all the northeastern states to appoint a special woman police official in each village to prevent trafficking of women and children.

"We have discussed this issue (trafficking of women and children) in the cabinet. We had called a meeting with these countries last month in which all NGOs working on this and others in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh came," she said.
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