10,000 children trafficked into Northeast India each year
A new report bu NGO’s in India has found that up to 10,000 children are trafficked into Northeast India each year.
Not less than 10,000 people, mostly children, are trafficked into the Northeast with a good number smuggled in from Bangladesh, Nepal and other South East Asian countries, surveys by NGOs reveal.
Most of those trafficked are then engaged as cheap labour in coal mines of Meghalaya, tea gardens in Assam and prostitution.
