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Tamil Nadu
K. Manikandan
FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: The police assistance booth at Tambaram railway station will soon have volunteers from an NGO to help those stranded.
TAMBARAM: Volunteers of a non-governmental organisation will soon assist police personnel in handling stranded children and youths at the Tambaram railway station. This follows a decision of the State police to revive an initiative to set up police booths at important railway stations to help those stranded. Apart from the routine tasks of pursuing crime cases, ensuring passenger safety and security of the installations and equipment, Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force personnel also attend to children and youths stranded at the station. So far this year, GRP and RPF personnel have seen more than 75 cases of children running away from home, young women being stalked and youths getting stranded. Following the State police’s decision to set up police booths, the personnel said they approached the Southern Railway authorities, who said that if a separate booth had to be installed police would have to pay a rent of Rs. 250 a day. As this was not found viable, they decided to deploy volunteers at the existing police assistance booth near the main entrance of the Tambaram railway station. Four volunteers from city-based NGO Marialaya would help policemen during the daytime, senior officials said. This would be on the lines of similar facilities at Central and Egmore railway stations. The objective was to establish contact with the runaway children, offer them food, shelter and counselling before restoring them to their parents. Policemen pointed out that most of the runaway children were less than 16 years and belonged to remote villages. Locating their parents through their colleagues in the respective districts was not an easy task. The new arrangement would be a step forward towards ensuring complete safety of passengers, police said. As Tambaram was emerging as an important junction, with passenger population increasing by the day, there was need for greater vigil, they said. Railway policemen in Tambaram said they had registered at least six cases in the past one year against traffickers and middlemen who attempted to take away young boys, mostly from the hinterland of Tamil Nadu, for work in hazardous industries in north India.
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