Maiti India, an organisation working against trafficking in women and children, today rescued six Nepali children from New Delhi. 

The kids, aged between 10-14, who were rescued were kept at two different children homes in New Delhi for the past six months.

Among the rescued kids are Dipak Adhikari of Dhanusha, Sandip Pande of Palpa, Munna Ansari of Bara, Raju Sharma of Kathmandu, Bikash Thapa of Sindhuli and Amrit Kafle of Chitwan. They had been rescued from the Tis Hajari-based Salam Children Home and Daryagunj-based Sathi Children Home. 

According to Maiti India programme officer Indira Pande, the Delhi-based Children Protection Committee had entrusted her organisation with the task of sending them home upon the identification of their nationality. “After they were found stranded, police had handed them over to the children homes earlier,” said Pande, adding kids from Nepal reach India in different ways. “Some come here with their kin in search for a job, others are sweet-talked and trafficked across the border while some flee their house in a fit of anger against their parents,” said Pande.

According to Maiti India adviser Balkrishna Pande, the rescued children will be handed over to Bhairahawa-based Maiti Nepal branch. From there they will be taken to Kathmandu and sent to their respective homes, he informed. Earlier too, over a dozen stranded Nepali children were rescued from the Indian Capital. 

Pande added that about 34 Nepali children whose parents are yet to be identified are at different children homes in Delhi.

Published on: 23 March 2013 | The Himalayan Times