Many of you guys must have heard about the Red light area of Delhi. For those of you who don’t know, do read this article till the end. You will get to know a lot of things and a lot of your misconceptions will be cleared.
WHAT ARE RED LIGHT AREAS?
We call red area to those areas where prostitution is prevalent, and a place where sex workers offer their services for which people pay for them.
It is hard to believe that, even today in this developing era such harassing things like human trafficking are happening in most of the countries where no one wants to talk.
GB Road Delhi The Dark Side of India
In 1965, GB Road, or Gastrin Bastion, changed to Shradhanand Marg. Whatever, you heard about the Red light area of Delhi, it is quite different from reality. Different types of people have different experiences in the area of GB Road in Delhi. Some people are attracted here for promiscuity while some other cases like robbery, and snatching also happen here. It is a place where human trafficking occurs on a large scale.
Some Interesting facts about it from Social activist Pallabi Ghosh
Pallavi Ghosh is a social activist from Assam, has rescued more than 10,000 girls with the help of police, local informer, and other Governmental organizations like NGOs. According to her, human trafficking occurs all around the world and the most targeted are those families which are financially weaker or facing some other crises and are easily trapped. Most of the girls are from northeast India. One more fact she got from her research is that the girls of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are specifically brought for labor work due to their strength and healthy personality.
Other than this the girls having fair complexion are brought for prostitution or sex work, this is the dark truth of that place. Shakurpur is the biggest placement hub agency in Delhi, this place provides proper choosing of Groomed Boys and girls for work. Another fact from her research is that there is a Bedia community where the family’s elder daughter works as a prostitute and her father and uncle are her clients.
Things Pallavi Ghosh did in a Rescued Operation:
To perform a rescuing operation in an illegal place is a very difficult and risky task to do but she did her work full of enthusiasm and dedication. After getting information from locals, she started working on her rescue operation to save the trapped girls. And then sent them to the Child welfare committee after proper medical check-ups.
Why is rescue of missing girls so difficult?
It Is quite difficult to bring a girl back to her place. It depends on when you got the information about the missing one so that you can rescue her legally. Keep this thing in your mind, You have to reach the place before they find out so that no harm is caused to them.
It Is quite difficult to bring a girl back to her place. It depends on when you got the information about the missing one so that you can rescue her legally. Keep this thing in your mind, You have to reach the place before they find out so that no harm is caused to them.
You can watch a detailed video on this topic on ReahHit youtube channel where they shot a podcast with Pallabi Ghosh, a social activist of the city.
