The government demonstrated increased efforts compared to the previous reporting period, and therefore, India remained on Tier 2,” the department said. Men, women, and children in debt bondage — sometimes inherited from previous generations — are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, embroidery factories and agriculture, it said.It added that within India, some are subjected to forced labour in sectors such as construction, steel, garment and textile industries, wire manufacturing for underground cables, biscuit factories, pickling, floriculture, fish farms and ship breaking.Washington: Noting that investigations, prosecutions and convictions in India were “disproportionately low” relative to the scale of human trafficking, the United States has continued to place the country in ‘Tier 2’ of its annual report on the trade of humans.The US State Department in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2018 urged India to increase prosecutions and convictions for all forms of trafficking, including forced and bonded labour, and of officials allegedly complicit in it.Forced labour constitutes India’s largest trafficking problem.Tier 2 suggests that the government of the country does not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with those standards.Observing that experts estimate millions of women and children are Resin Zipper victims of sex trafficking in India, the report said traffickers use false promises of employment or arrange sham marriages within India or Gulf states and subject women and girls to sex trafficking.
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