Lok Sabha Question No. 933 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-13
Subject: Trafficking of Women
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Pradyut Bordoloi, Vincent H Pala, Jagdambika Pal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 933

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 13 TH  DECEMBER, 2022/ AGRAHAYANA 22, 1944 (SAKA)

TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN

933.  SHRI PRADYUT BORDOLOI: SHRI VINCENT H. PALA: SHRI JAGDAMBIKA PAL:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) the details and the number of complaints on missing of women reported and resolved during  the  last  five  years  and  the  current  year,  State-wise, particularly in North-East Region, Uttar Pradesh and Meghalaya;

(b)  whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  specific  steps  in  curbing  of trafficking of women and girls particularly from the border districts of the country;

(c) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;

(d)  the  details  of  shelter  homes  for  rehabilitation  existing  in  the  above mentioned States;

(e) the steps taken by the Government for the rehabilitation of trafficked women and girls; and

(f) whether any steps are being taken by the Government to promote interState  coordination  for  resolving  cases  of  human  trafficking  especially  in the North-East Region and if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI AJAY KUMAR MISHRA)

(a):  The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) compiles crime statistics reported to it by the States and Union Territories (UTs) and publishes the

same in its annual publication 'Crime in India'. The latest published report is  of  the  year  2021.  State/UT-wise  details,  including  the  States  of  NorthEast  Region  and  Uttar  Pradesh,  of  women  (above  18  years)  reported missing and traced during the last five years are given in Annexure.

(b) & (c): 'Police'  and  'Public  Order'  are  State-List  subjects  under  the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India. Therefore, it is the primary responsibility of respective State Governments and UT Administrations to take  necessary  steps  for  preventing  and  countering  the  crime  of  human trafficking.

However, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been supplementing the efforts of the State Governments by undertaking various initiatives in this regard.  MHA  has  provided  financial  assistance  to  the  tune  of  Rs  98.86 crores  under  'Nirbhaya  Fund'  to  all  States  and  Union  Territories  (UTs) during  the  financial  years  2019-20  and  2020-21  for  strengthening  the existing  Anti  Human  Trafficking  Units  (AHTUs)  and  for  establishing  new AHTUs covering all districts of the States and UTs. AHTUs are integrated taskforce units with the mandate of preventing and combating trafficking in  persons  and  to  investigate  and  prosecute  the  crime  of  trafficking.  A total  of  768  AHTUs have been set up in the States/UTs. Grant-in-aid has also  been  provided  to  Border  Guarding  Forces  namely,  Border  Security Force  (BSF)  and  Sashastra  Seema  Bal  (SSB)  for  establishing  AHTUs  in international  border  areas  for rescue of victims of human trafficking. BSF

and  SSB  have  established  15  and  5  AHTUs  respectively  in  the  border areas.

MHA also provides financial assistance to the States and UTs for holding 'Judicial  Colloquiums'  and 'State level conferences' on periodic basis for sensitizing the judicial and police officers and to make available to them updated  information  on  the  latest  provisions  of  laws  relating  to  human trafficking. MHA also issues guidelines on preventing and countering the crime of human trafficking to the States and UTs from time to time. These advisories are available on MHA's website at: https://www.mha.gov.in.

(d) & (e): The Ministry of Women & Child Development has informed that under  the  newly  approved  'Mission  Shakti',  'SwadharGreh  for  Women  in difficult circumstances' and 'Ujjawala Homes' for Prevention of Trafficking have been merged and renamed as 'Shakti Sadan' which is an Integrated Relief and Rehabilitation Home. The details of shelter homes in the Northeast States and Uttar Pradesh are as follows:

|   S. No. | State             |   No. of Shakti Sadan |
|----------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|        1 | Arunachal Pradesh |                     0 |
|        2 | Assam             |                    19 |
|        3 | Manipur           |                    22 |
|        4 | Meghalaya         |                     0 |
|        5 | Mizoram           |                     1 |
|        6 | Nagaland          |                     0 |
|        7 | Sikkim            |                     0 |
|        8 | Tripura           |                     0 |
|        9 | Uttar Pradesh     |                     0 |
|       10 | Total             |                    42 |

(f): MHA has launched a national level communication platform namely Crime Multi Agency Centre (Cri-MAC), which facilitates dissemination and sharing  of  information  amongst  Police  authorities  of  all  States  and  UTs about  significant  crimes,  including  human  trafficking  cases,  across  the country  on  real  time  basis  and  thus  enabling  inter-State  coordination amongst the Police officers dealing with various crimes, including human trafficking.

MHA  also  engages  with  the  State  and  UT  Nodal  Officers  of  Human Trafficking  on  periodic  basis.  States/UTs  have  been  advised  by  MHA  to establish mechanisms for effective inter-State coordination amongst each other for addressing the crime of human trafficking in an effective manner.

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## Annexure referred in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 933 for 13.12.2022

## State/UT-wise Number of Adult Women (above 18 yrs) Missing and Traced in the country during 2017-2021

| SL   | State/UT                   | 2017    | 2017   | 2018    | 2018   | 2019    | 2019   | 2020    | 2020   | 2021    | 2021   |
|------|----------------------------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|
| SL   | State/UT                   | Missing | Traced | Missing | Traced | Missing | Traced | Missing | Traced | Missing | Traced |
| 1    | Andhra Pradesh             | 5933    | 4462   | 5703    | 4419   | 6252    | 4679   | 7057    | 5193   | 8969    | 6732   |
| 2    | Arunachal Pradesh          | 112     | 50     | 67      | 65     | 11      | 11     | 1       | 1      | 1       | 1      |
| 3    | Assam                      | 2453    | 1586   | 3762    | 2327   | 3910    | 2212   | 3791    | 3202   | 2915    | 2019   |
| 4    | Bihar                      | 2647    | 1032   | 3689    | 1994   | 4213    | 1749   | 4557    | 1770   | 5061    | 2306   |
| 5    | Chhattisgarh               | 10894   | 4877   | 13457   | 6475   | 15484   | 6993   | 15497   | 6606   | 18135   | 7859   |
| 6    | Goa                        | 481     | 244    | 461     | 204    | 530     | 233    | 481     | 240    | 460     | 210    |
| 7    | Gujarat                    | 10424   | 7304   | 11037   | 7249   | 12012   | 7570   | 11817   | 6833   | 13747   | 9499   |
| 8    | Haryana                    | 6433    | 3833   | 6778    | 4678   | 8043    | 5411   | 8083    | 5144   | 10345   | 6531   |
| 9    | Himachal Pradesh           | 1138    | 717    | 1341    | 781    | 1648    | 961    | 1557    | 920    | 1862    | 1282   |
| 10   | Jharkhand                  | 444     | 230    | 410     | 143    | 534     | 208    | 532     | 227    | 554     | 256    |
| 11   | Karnataka                  | 11573   | 7308   | 12886   | 10260  | 12247   | 9225   | 11950   | 8935   | 12964   | 10083  |
| 12   | Kerala                     | 5720    | 5346   | 7168    | 6760   | 8202    | 7783   | 5929    | 5535   | 5657    | 5323   |
| 13   | Madhya Pradesh             | 36603   | 15067  | 43723   | 16925  | 52119   | 22120  | 52357   | 22884  | 55704   | 25260  |
| 14   | Maharashtra                | 50877   | 25941  | 57923   | 30746  | 63167   | 34521  | 58735   | 37000  | 56498   | 37053  |
| 15   | Manipur                    | 131     | 100    | 153     | 132    | 201     | 165    | 128     | 102    | 94      | 61     |
| 16   | Meghalaya                  | 136     | 60     | 172     | 114    | 195     | 132    | 133     | 90     | 105     | 77     |
| 17   | Mizoram                    | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      |
| 18   | Nagaland                   | 40      | 40     | 26      | 20     | 16      | 9      | 17      | 11     | 16      | 14     |
| 19   | Odisha                     | 17449   | 15604  | 10163   | 2455   | 17134   | 2928   | 23506   | 3254   | 29582   | 12863  |
| 20   | Punjab                     | 2986    | 780    | 3392    | 755    | 4073    | 669    | 4655    | 726    | 5410    | 917    |
| 21   | Rajasthan                  | 12471   | 7966   | 15128   | 9513   | 19009   | 11945  | 21037   | 11718  | 25247   | 14229  |
| 22   | Sikkim                     | 225     | 206    | 79      | 63     | 127     | 92     | 119     | 84     | 147     | 93     |
| 23   | Tamil Nadu                 | 10219   | 7361   | 10218   | 6538   | 11636   | 7150   | 13878   | 8653   | 18015   | 11968  |
| 24   | Telangana                  | 8360    | 6128   | 9404    | 7272   | 10744   | 9361   | 10917   | 8869   | 12834   | 11288  |
| 25   | Tripura                    | 933     | 751    | 1127    | 787    | 1439    | 1136   | 1177    | 853    | 1400    | 1179   |
| 26   | Uttar Pradesh              | 6575    | 2122   | 8265    | 3207   | 8985    | 3994   | 8542    | 4015   | 9035    | 3545   |
| 27   | Uttarakhand                | 1265    | 457    | 1689    | 392    | 2169    | 625    | 2381    | 1425   | 2413    | 1480   |
| 28   | West Bengal                | 52688   | 25488  | 52000   | 22643  | 54348   | 23408  | 51559   | 22694  | 50998   | 21497  |
|      | TOTAL STATE(S)             | 259210  | 145060 | 280221  | 146917 | 318448  | 165290 | 320393  | 166984 | 348168  | 193625 |
| 29   | A&N Islands                | 78      | 31     | 109     | 48     | 123     | 41     | 105     | 30     | 111     | 36     |
| 30   | Chandigarh                 | 737     | 113    | 831     | 90     | 1071    | 170    | 1234    | 270    | 1364    | 407    |
| 31   | D&N Haveli and Daman& Diu+ | 109     | 71     | 146     | 86     | 177     | 93     | 133     | 75     | 148     | 95     |
| 32   | Delhi                      | 21090   | 7331   | 22920   | 12909  | 19498   | 7332   | 19685   | 6712   | 21871   | 6499   |
| 33   | Jammu& Kashmir*            | 2110    | 864    | 2381    | 946    | 2738    | 1259   | 2701    | 1143   | 3178    | 1477   |
| 34   | Ladakh                     | -       | -      | -       | -      | 0       | 0      | 22      | 5      | 22      | 4      |
| 35   | Lakshadweep                | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      | 0       | 0      |
| 36   | Puducherry                 | 94      | 89     | 125     | 114    | 113     | 93     | 149     | 107    | 196     | 155    |
|      | TOTAL UT(S)                | 24218   | 8499   | 26512   | 14193  | 23720   | 8988   | 24029   | 8342   | 26890   | 8673   |
|      | TOTAL (ALL INDIA)          | 283428  | 153559 | 306733  | 161110 | 342168  | 174278 | 344422  | 175326 | 375058  | 202298 |

Source: Crime in India

Note : '+' Combined data of erstwhile D&N Haveli UT and Daman & Diu UT during 2017 to 2019

*' Data of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir State including Ladakh during 2017 to 2019

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