Year: 2017 | Month: December | Volume 5 | Issue No. 2

Child Trafficking in India: A Good Governance Perspective

Babu G.
DOI:10.5958/2454-9525.2017.00008.7

Abstract:

Good governance is a dynamic conception and has several components that qualify it; one such component is protection and promotion of human rights. In this age of human rights (under good governance), child rights constitute one of the vital aspects. But the optimum realisation of child rights in India, has become a distant dream, due to the existence of several evils that act against these rights, one such evil is child trafficking. Although, there are number of initiatives, policies, conventions, laws, protocols and regulations against child trafficking at regional, national and international level, the issue continues to exist and also is on rise. It is assumed that the government and public authorities play a vital role in the elimination of child trafficking through policy formulation and implementation as parts of good governance agenda. But the continuous existence of child trafficking poses serious concerns that are the government and public authorities serious in their implementation of these laws and policies towards curbing child trafficking? Where does the problem lie? Who are entrusted to implement the preventive measures? Why are the enforcement agencies/ public authorities blamed for continued existence of child trafficking in India? Are there problems with so-called policy management? In this background, this paper gives a brief overview of child trafficking in India and an attempt is made to link the existence of child trafficking as a result of lack of good governance. To that end, the scope of this paper has been descriptive and reliance is placed primarily on available books, papers published in journals, documents, and research reports, publications of various organizations, paper clippings, search engines, blogs and corroboration through discussion with experts in the field.

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