As many as 35 girls have reached their parents in Tinsukia district a day after they were rescued just before taking to Kerala.
Immediately after being rescued at the Margherita Railway Station on Saturday what a few of the girls told Assam Times suggest a circle of people has been making money with human trafficking.
“We are told to wait at this station. Some body was to arrive here to help us board on the train, that’s why we were looking for him,” a girl told Assam Times after she was recued by ATTSA with the help of police.
“They told us that money won’t be a problem if we go to Kerala. We were told that we would get good salary,” said a girl who was rescued along with 34 other girls.
“We have no money. Since we have nothing to eat that’s why, we have to listen to this nice package and pay in Kerala,’ said another girl.
“Having seen them suspiciously loitering at the platform in the afternoon we asked them where we got to know that they are waiting to board on a train to Kerala. Then we called up policemen who rescued them. They are now with their parents and family members,” said an ATTSA activist who rescued them.
Local residents blamed poverty for it and lack of tough laws to deal with these cases. Sudarshan Das, a school teacher said, “these people who basically belong to the tea workers have hardly anything to survive. They remain starved or half starved. Nobody help them survive. That’s the main reason why the human traffickers these girls.”
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Governor J B Patnaik said that the government's counter insurgency operations have fetched dividends where the republic day boycott call was defied. In his address after unfurling the national flag in Khanapara in Guwahati, he said that steps are being taken to bring about overall socio-economic development in the state.
He said that the government is leaving no stone unturned to put Assam on a track of rapid development process. Patnaik also said that government was committed to fighting corruption.
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Normal situation prevailed on Republic Day on Saturday. Trains and air services operated as usual though long distance and city private buses kept off the roads as the transport operators gave holiday to their staff on account of R-Day. National flags were seen fluttering in banks, educational institutions, etc., remained closed. Buses, private taxis and autorickshaws of state-run Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) plied as usual. Private vehicles and large number of people on foot were also seen making their way to the various R-Day celebration venues across the state.The N-E insurgent outfits had called for boycott of Republic Day Celebrations from 1am to 5 30 in the morning.
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The media fraternity of the city will hoist the national
tricolor tomorrow (Jan 26) at Guwahati Press Club. The program will
begin at 11 am sharp. Every one is requested to participate in the
program with an aim to pay tributes to the martyrs of India’s Freedom
Movement.
Asom Mohila Samata Society in association with Directorate of Field publicity, Dibrugarh organized an awareness programme on ‘National girl child day’ at Naduwa Panchayet, Dibrugarh on January 24.
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A powerful Improvised Explosive Devices was recovered ahead of the Republic Day celebrations in Darrang district on Thursday.The bomb was found near the Mangaldoi police station and Republic Day parade ground in the morning. Police suspected it a handiwork of ULFA for triggering explosion targeting security forces. Later army bomb squad team defused the bomb.
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