Ministry of Women and Child Development

More than 19000 women & children reported to have been trafficked during 2016

Posted On: 09 MAR 2017 4:27PM by PIB Delhi

 

The Ministry of Women & Child Development is implementing Ujjawala scheme which is a comprehensive scheme for rescue, rehabilitation and re-integration of victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.

           

The number of trafficked women and children during 2015 and 2016 in the country, State-wise including the states of North-East, as per data provided by the National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home affairs  is as given below:

 

                   

Total number of Women and Children Trafficked during the year 2015 & 2016

SNo.

State/UT

2015

2016

Women

Children  (Below 18 Year)

Women

Children  (Below 18 Year)

Data not received for the month

1

Andhra Pradesh

320

74

355

44

 

2

Arunachal Pradesh

10

11

3

2

 

3

Assam

187

129

163

130

 

4

Bihar

50

230

45

196

 

5

Chhattisgarh

100

101

132

138

 

6

Goa

80

2

86

2

 

7

Gujarat

334

335

460

485

 

8

Haryana

68

63

97

13

 

9

Himachal Pradesh

91

7

115

4

 

10

Jammu & Kashmir

0

4

0

0

 

11

Jharkhand

162

198

130

90

 

12

Karnataka

643

178

786

332

 

13

Kerala

14

66

176

83

 

14

Madhya Pradesh

64

55

54

97

 

15

Maharashtra

1379

295

1066

172

 

16

Manipur

0

3

16

9

 

17

Meghalaya

1

1

8

1

 

18

Mizoram

0

0

2

2

 

19

Nagaland

2

2

0

0

Dec.

20

Odisha

152

143

226

191

 

21

Punjab

1

103

2

48

 

22

Rajasthan

909

2387

975

2519

 

23

Sikkim

0

0

1

1

 

24

Tamil Nadu

761

143

1064

317

 

25

Telangana

670

300

368

7

 

26

Tripura

1

5

5

6

 

27

Uttar Pradesh

19

14

102

822

 

28

Uttarakhand

39

14

20

3

 

29

West Bengal

2064

1792

3559

3113

 

30

A & N Islands

4

0

5

0

 

31

Chandigarh

5

27

1

1

 

32

D&N Haveli

0

0

0

0

 

33

Daman & Diu

2

1

10

1

 

34

Delhi UT

167

465

87

275

Nov. & Dec.

35

Lakshadweep

0

0

0

0

 

36

Puducherry

1

0

0

0

 

 

Total

8300

7148

10119

9104

 

Note-: Data is Provisional, as complete data from Nagaland and Delhi is still awaited for the year 2016.

 

This information was given by Minister of State for Women & Child Development, Smt Krishna Raj in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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