"There is enormous amount of trafficking of children going on from the North East. We find them in Kerela, Tamil Nadu and many are going to Malaysia, Thailand. It is not fair," Gandhi said.
To cope with this, states have been asked to appoint a special woman police volunteer in every village by the end of the year, the selection and training of which will be done by the SPs, she said.
According to the minister, "In some states it will not be one woman but (in some) there could be a group of ten people with men also being part of it."
Gandhi asked the NE states to examine the 'Shaurya Dal' model in Madhya Pradesh.
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She said that panic buttons will be installed in
mobile phones to ensure that women in distress get immediate responses and help from those in the vicinity.
Meanwhile, the Union Minister also stated that she has taken up with her counterparts in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh the issue to stop trafficking of their children and women into India and elsewhere in the world.
"We have taken this issue very seriously. I had called a meeting with these countries last month in which all NGOs working on this and others in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh came," Gandhi said.
"We have another meeting slated later this month. We are telling each other what we can do. This month we are going to see that specific solutions will come into being," she said.