KADAPA: Collector G. Asok Kumar on Tuesday directed officials and police to deal sternly with brokers luring women with monetary benefits and shifting them to brothel houses.Addressing a meeting on Regional Network Against Immoral Trafficking of Women in his chambers, Mr. Asok Kumar asked its members to tour affected villages once in ten days and review the situation.

Calls for weekly reports

Urging them to submit weekly reports on their activities, he called for strict vigil and steps to ensure that no woman was forced into flesh trade.

Meetings should be held with Balika Sanghams and rural folk enlightened on the adverse effects of girls entering flesh trade. District samakhya members, who underwent training on AIDS prevention, should be involved in the meetings, he said.

Balika sanghams would be entrusted with maintaining nurseries to raise saplings needed for pongamia block plantations, Mr. Asok Kumar stated.

Girls should be trained in tailoring and other such works. Children of liberated sex workers should be enrolled in schools, he told officials. Network activities in Anantapur and Chittoor districts should be monitored.

Five brokers were identified and 12 liberated sex workers were being trained as health volunteers in Durgabai Deshmukh Vikasa Kendram, he said. He asked Women and Child Welfare officials to hold legal literacy camps for adolescent girls.

They should ascertain if loanees used money properly. Executive Director of SC Corporation and Network Coordinator M. Revathi, ICDS Project Director Sowbhagya- lakshmi, A.P. Mahila Commission Director M. Saraswathi Devi, Network Resource Person Sridevi and Coordinator of Open Schools Narayana took part.

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