Heart Warming Welcome of Nobel Prize Laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi in Doon

Given that child trafficking is lucrative and often linked with criminal activity and corruption, it is hard to estimate how many children suffer- but trafficking and exploitation is an increasing risk to children in India and around the world with children often being trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, like prostitution, or for labour such as domestic servitude, agricultural work, factory work, mining, or child soldiering. There are 215 million children engaged in child labour, with 115 million of those children in hazardous work. Sometimes sold by a family member or an acquaintance, sometimes lured by false promises of education and a "better" life — the reality is that these trafficked and exploited children are held in slave-like conditions without enough food, shelter, or clothing and often severely abused and cut off from all contact with their families.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi on his first stop of the his 35 day long tour of the nation Bharat Yatra at Graphic Era University that there are some places in our country where buffalo is sold at the rate of Rupees two lakhs whereas a girl is sold at rupees two thousand. Shri Satyarthi said that India will soon formulate strict laws to prohibit human trafficking. Union Home minister promised to make strict laws to curb human trafficking.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi addressed the students at Graphic Era University on October 12, 2017. Fighting for the protection of children rights, Shri Satyarthi reached his first escapement in Graphic Era University on course to his 35 day long tour of the nation. Alarmed about the statistics of national crime record bureau, Shri Satyarthi said 15000 cases of child sexual abuse have been registered- Only 4% of the culprits have been punished of these cases, in 6% of the cases, the culprits were acquitted and 90% of the cases are pending in the court. Shri Satyarthi told the gathering that only those people create history that do not fear winning or losing. Persuading the students to create history, he told the students of Graphic Era that he has a lot of expectations from them and asked the gathering to take a pledge to raise their voice against child labour and sexual harassment. Prior to this, he met the tiny tots of Graphic Era Global School.

Welcoming the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi , President of Graphic Era group Prof. (Dr) Kamal Ghanshala said that he will support the campaign of Shri Satyarthi. Dr. Ghanshala said that in his new project, he will provide free education to the students so that they can also become doctors and engineers.

President of Parmarth Niketan Swami Chidanand Saraswati said that India is known for its culture. He said that India’s GDP is its culture. Mentioning several prominent people, he said that these people could succeed in life because their childhood was safe and secure. President of Divine Shakti Foundation, Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati said that 3.5 crore children are living like slaves. Until we free them, we can’t call ourselves free. Giving the statistics, State Commision for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Shri Yogendra Khanduri, said that though Uttarakhand stands far better than other states in cases of Child Sexual abuse and child labour, the commission is committed to work relentlessly in this area. Additional Director General of Police Shri Ashok Kumar informed the gathering that the Uttarakhand police had rescued 1266 child labourers as part of Operation Smile in the last three years with immediate action being taken on such brutal cases by Uttarakhand Police. On this occasion Shri Kailash Satyarthi along with Swami Chidanand Saraswati gave the message of “Bachpan Bachao (Save Childhood)” by releasing balloons. Senior Director (HR) of multinational company Cap Gemini, Arshad Kadri was also felicitated during the event. 

The function was presided over by state BJP president Ajay Bhatt. Hitesh Shankar, Mahendra Pandey also addressed the gathering. State coordinator of Bharat Yatra, Jaya Mishra coordinated the event. Sumeda Satyarthi of Kailash Satyarthi Foundation, Chancellor of Graphic Era University Dr. R.C Joshi, Vice Chancellor of Graphic Era University Dr. L.M.S Palani, Vice Chancellor of Graphic Era Hill University Dr. Sanjay Jasola, BJP leader Umesha Agarwal and other several dignitaries were present during the occasion.

Every single person, therefore, can be incorporated in this fight. One can definitely make a difference.

Catch Kailash Satyarthi’s Full Speech here.