Editor,
Recently, our state police destroyed prostitution dens and rescued many minors, which is commendable. But this also reflects a problem: why can minors be easily deceived? The reason is that they do not study in schools at the age when they should receive education, but instead they look for jobs everywhere to make a living.
For example, the two minors rescued by the Itanagar police this time were easily deceived to New Delhi by criminal gangs on the pretext of recruiting them as waitresses, which shows that our country has not done enough in terms of education and livelihood security.
If students from low-income families can be provided with free enrolment opportunities and given subsidies, minors will not drop out of school to make a living. If schools, community organisations and families popularise anti-fraud and anti-sexual assault knowledge among them, they will not be trafficked.
I hope that the national fiscal expenditure will be more inclined towards education and social welfare security.
Vijay Parekh