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New Delhi : Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has invited comments/suggestions from all the stakeholders on the draft ‘Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021’.
The objective of the bill is to prevent and counter trafficking in persons, especially women and children, to provide for care, protection, and rehabilitation of the victims, while respecting their rights, and creating a supportive legal, economic, and social environment for them and also to ensure prosecution of offenders, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Bill, once finalised, will be sent to the Cabinet for its approval and then for the assent of both the houses of Parliament to become an Act. This Act shall apply to every offence of trafficking in persons with cross-border implications, according to a PIB release.
The Comments/suggestions on the aforesaid Draft Bill may be sent by July 14, 2021, on the e-mail ID santanu.brajabasi@gov.in