October 17, 2016 5:47 PM

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Govt to bring an anti-trafficking legislation in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi

Union Minister of Women & Child Development, Maneka Gandhi has said that the Government would soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in the Parliament, the draft of which is ready.<br/><br/> Addressing the Regional Editors' Conference organised by the Press Information Bureau of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Chandigarh today the Minister said Government will try to introduce the Bill in the winter session of the Parliament. The act will cover rescue, relief and reintegration of trafficked persons, and for the first time will make a distinction between those trafficked and the traffickers.<br/><br/>Mrs. Maneka Gandhi highlighted the steps being taken by the Government for the safety and protection of women and children of the country saying that recently Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched POCSO e-Box which is a simple and easy facility for children or any adult to register complaints of child sexual abuse or harassment. <br/><br/>She said Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is flagship programme aimed at reversing the declining child sex ratio. <br/><br/>Besides this 33% reservation for women in police force and setting up a large Home for 1000 widows in Vrindavan are other steps.<br/><br/> Mrs Gandhi said the Government is now working full time to revamp the Anganwadi system to change ways in which nutrition is being administered to children and pregnant women.<br/><br/> To ensure healthy children, the Government is now working for six months' mandatory maternity leave for working women for which the Ministry of Labour and Employment has moved to introduce amendments in the Act. <br/><br/>Summing up, the Women and Child Development Minister said the Government is moving fast on all fronts to change the status of women and children in the country.

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