256 children rescued from begging in Haryana

Nearly 256 children who were engaged in begging have been rescued during the past two months from ten towns of the state by Haryana police, under its ongoing drive to make the state free from this menace.
The rescued children have been reunited with their families through Child Welfare Societies, a spokesman of Haryana Police said here today.
He said that the State Crime Branch (SCB) of Police Department has launched a drive to make the state free from child-begging in the month of April 2015 by creating ten such units at Panchkula, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Jind, Karnal, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hisar and Bhiwani.

Later on, the campaign would be extended to other towns of the state, he added.
He said that a target has been given for the next six months to these units that not even a single child should be engaged begging.
He said that human trafficking units have also been set up for preventing the menace under the SCB in the state.
To save children and to avert incidents of child-trafficking, such units are operational in the entire state, he said.
The SCB team in collaboration with officers of Child Development Department, Child Welfare Council and Labour Department are implementing various laws to save the children from this practice, he said.