Tattered wings.

Innocent glistening eyes ready with crisp uniforms, shoulder bags loaded with books, identity cards on, paving their way to blaring yellow yet rusted school-buses draws every girl or boy heading to school. But, what if they are firmly holding wages instead of pencils, if they are sobbing day in and day out instead of shrieking out laughter.

Child trafficking- a wide tangled issue that has no proper panacea. About, 1.2 million or more children go missing everyday. The question is where do they go? A place that they dreamt or a place that they never dreamt in their worst nightmare. Well, the latter takes precedence over the former.

In rural parts of India where children struggle to live, there are myriad people who operate from different gangs and entice children by promising them enough money that would smoothen their hurdles, but, as they manage to take them away from their native place, reality dawns upon them and their mask falls off.  Some children are sexually exploited, some forced to beg, some used to sell drugs, some for sport and organ harvesting. These 'some' are millions who go through immense physical and mental agony.

India is a hub of child abuse and exploitation. With the increasing unemployment, people fail to arrange money for their bread and milk and selling of children becomes an ultimate source of income.  Such missing reports do not even get reported and they lose their identity. They are difficult to track and even if they are found, they have lost their identity and become stubborn to return back to their abode.  The different 'gangs' engage them to heinous crimes. They rip off their backs to such an extent that they are unable to retrieve to their previous image. They are labelled as socially unwanted.

Can we blame the laws or will we call for better implementation of laws enacted?

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports the percentage of child victims had risen in a three year span from 20 percent to 27 percent. Of every three child victims, two are girls and one is a boy. Gender and age profile of victims detected globally: 59% women, 14% men, 17% girls and 10% boys. 

We all demand better implementation of laws, stringent punishments to those found guilty in any way contributing to child trafficking, investigating into these cases, foraging the rackets and finding every intricate detail so that the future of other millions are saved.