15 kids being trafficked to Gujarat rescued, two held
Farming of Bt cotton at Gujarat is a contractual farming. It needs large number of labourers. Farmers force contractors to bring more labourers to work and the children from under privileged families are an easy catch.
Two people were arrested by the Panarwa police on Monday night on charges of child trafficking and were booked under various relevant sections of IPC and Juvenile Justice Act.
Around 15 children were being send off by the traffickers to Gujarat to work in Bt cotton fields.The rescued children were later shifted to the shelter house of Child Welfare Committee.
Udaipur Child Welfare Committee (CWC) member Harish Paliwal said, “The rescued children includes 10 boys and five girls all under the age bracket of 14 to 16 years”.
He added, “Every year about 50 - 60 children are rescued and provided counselling by the committee and their parents are instructed to take proper care of them. The state government provides help under Victim Retribution Plan (Pidit Pratikar).”
The zonal director of Research Directorate of Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), SK Sharma said, “The average height of Bt cotton crops is around four feet and so it is very easy for a child to separate the cotton flowers from the crop. Children are considered as cheap labour and are made to work for ₹100 to ₹140 per day.”
Deputy Sp Kotra circle said, “We have nabbed the vehicle carrying the children at the Panarwa district. On questioning the accused they revealed that they were carrying the children to Gujarat to work in Bt cotton fields. The vehicle was seized and the accused were booked under section 370(5),374 of IPC and sections 75 and 79 of Juvenile Justice Act”.
“The farming of the Bt cotton at Gujarat is a contractual farming. It requires large number of labourers. The farmers force the contractors to bring more labourers to work and the children of under privileged families at Jadhol and Panarwa areas is an easy catch. Also the Panawara village is situated near the Gujarat border and it is easy for the contractors to transport the children to Gujarat from there”, Sharma said.
Every year this trade of trafficking children to Gujarat becomes active with the arrival of the monsoon. The police have not yet taken any step despite being aware of this fact.
The arrested traffickers are still being interrogated and the police are trying to extract information about their network.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India declared the results of Chartered Accountancy (CA) exam and Common Proficiency Test (CPT) on Tuesday. The CA final examination was conducted in May and CPT was held in June this year.
Out of the 8,759 students, who appeared for the CA final examination from Jaipur centre of the ICAI, 991 passed the test, resulting in a pass percentage of 11.31. In the CPT, 817 students cleared the test from the Jaipur centre.
The pass percentage of students in CA final has gone up by a little over 1 percent from the last examination.
This year, five students from Jaipur centre have secured a place in the merit list of top 50, as compared to three in the last examination. Riya Gupta, who secured an all India rank (AIR) 28, was the topper from Jaipur. Across the country 1.14 lakh students appeared for the CA final examination, out of which 19,879 were declared successful.