Lok Sabha Question No. 778 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-25
Subject: Anti-Trafficking Cases
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Rajendra Dhedya  Gavit

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 778

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 25 TH  JULY, 2023/ SRAVANA 3, 1945 (SAKA)

ANTI-TRAFFICKING CASES

778. SHRI RAJENDRA DHEDYA GAVIT:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  has  developed  any  Portal  to  track  antitrafficking  cases  as  proposed  under  the  Anti-Human  Trafficking  Unit (AHTU) Scheme;

(b) if so, the details of the said portal and if not, the reasons therefor;

(c) the details and the number of trafficking cases recorded and resolved through this portal; and

(d) the activities undertaken to counter human trafficking in tribal areas?

ANSWER

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

(a)to (c): The  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  has  launched  a  national  level communication platform - Crime Multi Agency Centre (Cri-MAC) in the year 2020.  Cri-MAC  facilitates  dissemination  of  information  about  significant crimes, including human trafficking cases, across the country on real time

## L.S.US.Q.N.O. 778 FOR 25.07.2023

basis.    Cri-MAC  has  been  launched  for  generating  alerts  on  significant incidents of crime and for communication among police units across the country. The coordination mechanism available to Police Officers across the States and Union Territories through Cri-MAC is an efficient and fast enabling-tool for sharing information about any crime in a safe and secure manner, which helps in locating and identifying the victims and also helps in prevention, detection and investigation of crimes.

The National Crime Records Bureau compiles crime statistics reported to it by the States and Union Territories and publishes the same in its annual publication 'Crime in India'. The latest published report is of the year 2021. A total of 2189 cases of human trafficking were reported and 1645 charge sheeted during the year 2021.

(d): 'Police' and 'Public Order' are 'State-List' subjects under the Seventh Schedule  to  the  Constitution  of  India.  Therefore,  the  responsibility  for preventing and countering the crime of human trafficking primarily vests with respective State Governments/Union Territories. However, the Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  has  also  been  supplementing  the  efforts  of  the States/UTs in this regard by providing them guidelines on preventing and

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countering human trafficking, etc. in the form of various Advisories issued from time to time. These advisories are available at www.mha.gov.in. The Ministry of Home Affairs has advised the States and Union Territories that appropriate 'intelligence' and 'surveillance' mechanisms may be established  by  them  for  identifying  the  persons/gangs  involved  in  human trafficking  cases  and  for  gathering  information  about  their  affiliations, modus operandi, etc. States/Union  Territories  have  also  been  advised  to take  suitable  measures  for  generating  awareness  about  incidents  of human  trafficking  at  all  levels  and  for  organizing  community  awareness programmes  and  to  engage  with  representatives  of  local  panchayats  to effectively counter the human trafficking incidents.

The  Ministry  has  also  provided  financial  assistance  to  all  States/Union Territories  for  establishing  Anti  Human  Trafficking  Units  covering  all districts  of  the  country.  The  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  also  provides financial  assistance  to  the  States/Union  Territories  to  hold  'Judicial Colloquiums' and 'State level conferences' for sensitizing law officers/Police Officers, etc. on issues relating to trafficking.

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