Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Rescued from Delhi last year after being sold into marriage and caged in a room for six months, Roopa Dhara* (15), along with other girls like her, prowls around her village in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district - for child traffickers. After keeping a watch on a group of people frequenting a friend's place, they confront the parents who admit that the men had come with a marriage proposal for the girl. Roopa and her friends intimidate the girl's below-poverty-line family that they would lose their NREGS job card, ration cards and may also be arrested. The parents yield and the marriage is called off.
