New Delhi: A first-of-its-kind web portal to track and streamline cases of human trafficking across the country was launched by the Union Home Ministry on Thursday.
The portal will serve as a vital information technology- enabling tool for sharing of information across all stakeholders like states, union territories, civil society organisations and NGOs for effective implementation of anti-human trafficking measures.
The system, which works on the basis of login id`s being given to police and other enforcement agencies, was launched by Minister of State for Home R P N Singh.
The Minister, an official statement said, said the portal will help track a large number of cases having inter-state ramifications.
"This portal will also act as one stop information repository on issues relating to trafficking including details of Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs), their locations, contact details of anti-human trafficking nodal officers," the statement added.
The site will also provide comprehensive data on legislations, statistics, important judgements, UN Conventions, details of trafficked persons and traffickers, rescue and success stories.
The crime of trafficking, particularly in women and children for various purposes such as commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced marriages, domestic servitude amongst others, is an organised crime that gravely violates basic human rights.
