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How serious is the problem of trafficking against women and children in India?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Trafficking is the recruitment, transport or harbouring of persons by coercion, fraud or inducement for exploitation. Judging its seriousness in India means weighing what the records show against what they structurally cannot show. On both counts it is grave, and gravest where least visible.

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  • What the records show
  • The measurement problem — the sociological point
  • Forms and sociological drivers
  • The response and its gaps
  • Conclusion

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