The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has rescued atleast 229 youngsters from the railways stations across the city in the year 2020. Most of these youngsters have been sent to their respective properties when some have been handed more than to NGOs working for youngsters, mentioned an official.
According to the RPF officials, atleast 80% of such youngsters come to the city without having informing their households, due to some fight, or some household difficulties, or in search of much better life or glamour. However, right after failing to make a mark in the city and with nowhere to go, they preserve loitering close to the railway stations. These youngsters are then forced to do odd jobs. In some situations these youngsters also faces atrocities and grow to be victims of human trafficking gangs or get applied as beggars.
Some youngsters truly get lost from their parents and relatives and accidentally come to the city, but their count is marginal, mentioned officials.
From January till November final year, the RPF has rescued atleast 229 youngsters from the railways station premises across the city, which include things like 138 boys and 91 girls. As a element of its unique drive, the RPF has effectively reunited more than 15,000 youngsters with their households given that 2016.
In the instances when the authorities failed to find their parents, the custody of such youngsters have been offered to NGO’s working in this field, when these without having any relatives and these who got addicted have been sent to youngsters properties.
In the instances exactly where youngsters themselves leave their homes and do not want to return, the RPF employees has been educated to take such youngsters in self-assurance rather. In this way the officials could connect with the youngsters conveniently and realize their issues. In such instances youngsters also share their accurate specifics with them that aids cops to trace their parents. In such instances the officials also counsel their parents.