RAIGANJ, March 11: In order to combat trafficking of women in north Dinajpur district, administration has begun screening a documentary film in different blocks of the district since yesterday Mrs Shila Dutta, a woman of Jadavpur in Kolkata has produced the film on her own. Most of the characters in the film are from the district.
The documentary film was screened yesterday afternoon at Panchal village. The documentary has also been screened at Kaliyaganj Municipality and at Najmu Mancha today. The documentary has also been screened at Islampur ywo days ago. The screenings are said to have attracted a huge crowd.
Reportedly in last few years hundreds women, most of whom were teenaged girls, have been trafficked to other states from the district.Though police rescued 13 girls from different states, majority of the trafficked girls still remain untraced.The roots of women trafficking reached went so deep that north Dinajpur district police beg-an to spread awareness among the residents.
The north Dinajpur police super Mr SB Purnapatra said: “After conducting inquiry we found that the women and girls who were trafficked had been misled with false promises of good jobs or marriage. In some cases either the husbands of the trafficked women or some of their neighbour were involved.
“So we started an appeal in a local TV channel in which the guardians are being told to inform police just before handingover their daughters to any person.This documentary prepared by Mrs Dutta will also help police to make the guardians conscious.
Reportedly, another documentary by Mrs Dutta will be shown in south Dinajpur district where the girls are trafficked through the non-fenced zone of Indo-Bangladesh border. The way of trafficking would be highlighted there.”
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