![]() Women are being brought from West Bengal on the promise of a job, but then forcefully married off to somebody," she said. In Kashmir, trafficking through marriage has increased. "They make promises to women, get them here or anywhere else in India, saying that they will get paid well or get a job, but they do not get paid properly, and (they are) being misused. To a question about unregistered domestic help agencies in J-K, she said that is also one way of trafficking. Otherwise, when the state assembly is there or the state government is there, they nominate the state commission but they (Centre) are thinking something out of the box," she said without giving further details. Women are coming from West Bengal for jobs but then they are married forcibly to somebody who sexually abuses them," she said, adding that a short film on this topic will also be screened here.Īsked when the Women's Commission in Jammu and Kashmir will be restored, she said the Centre is planning something along those lines. Even in Kashmir, trafficking through marriage has increased. "They give false promises of jobs here, or elsewhere in India, but they don't get paid properly and are abused. Sharma said the women were being trafficked under the pretext of being provided well-paying jobs. This is our first of its kind programme in Jammu and Kashmir where all the forces - state commissions, NGOs - are together to make people aware, especially the students, that nobody is out of reach of this problem," the NCW chief said. "The main problem is due to lack of awareness. And sometimes, the victims of the trafficking do not even know that they are the victims," Sharma said. "Human trafficking is a serious crime and it does not have boundaries whether it is Kashmir or Kanyakumari. This is the main purpose of making it (workshop) happen in Kashmir," she said. ![]() "We must now work to save our daughters and our children. Sharma said the purpose of holding the workshop in Kashmir was to make people aware of the menace of human trafficking. ![]()
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