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Secretary of the Women Development and Child Welfare Department A. Suryakumari connected Tuesday said effectual implementation of preventive measures by officials earlier issues look would output amended outcomes, alternatively of searching for solutions aft problems arise.
She was speaking astatine a regional-level Training of Trainers programme connected Prevention of Human Trafficking and Girl Child Safety, organised by the Women Development and Child Welfare Department successful Vijayawada. Ms. Suryakumari said kid extortion and women empowerment were among the apical priorities of the authorities and elaborated connected the assorted schemes being implemented for the payment of women and miss children.
She said District Mission Coordinators had been appointed arsenic nodal officers successful each territory to guarantee effectual coordination of schemes. She informed that Yuva groups for younker and Sakhi groups for miss children had been formed, covering astir 23 lakh children crossed the State. The objective, she said, was to scope children successful authorities and backstage schools, residential institutions and those who were retired of school.
Stating that quality trafficking strips radical of dignity and affects millions of lives crossed the world, Ms. Suryakumari expressed superior interest implicit the changing household operation and the increasing power of societal media. She said exigency assistance was disposable done the toll-free fig 112 and One-Stop Centres to guarantee the information of women and children. Emphasising that prevention alternatively than post-incident effect was the government’s halfway approach, she said efforts were nether mode to marque the State a exemplary successful kid information and women empowerment.
Social activistic Sunitha Krishnan spoke astir the distressing conditions faced by victims of quality trafficking. Everyone was susceptible successful the integer age, she said, adding that 25 to 30% of girls trapped successful trafficking were affected by HIV and suffered terrible carnal and intelligence trauma. She noted that rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors into mean beingness remained a large challenge, arsenic seen from experiences successful structure homes.
She said Andhra Pradesh was the archetypal State successful the state to instrumentality an anti-human trafficking argumentation successful 2003 and appreciated the enactment extended by the authorities nether the enactment of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
The programme was attended by Mission Vatsalya Joint Director M. Shireesha, Mission Shakti Joint Director in-charge S. Naga Shailaja, Joint Project Coordinator S. Sunanda, Assistant Director P. Lavanya, NTR territory Women Development and Child Welfare Project Director Shaik Ruksana Sultana Begum, Nodal Officer Sai Shailaja, Prajwala Junior Director Mohammed Ali and others.
