The Banchhada community in western Madhya Pradesh is described as pushing girls into sex work from early adolescence, with recruitment reportedly operating along State Highway 156 and with rehabilitation gaps keeping some girls trapped.
GS1GS2GS3GS4The HinduGS1Trafficking in persons/sexual exploitation of minorsRehabilitation and social welfare schemesCaste-based stigma and exclusion
What happened: recruitment into sex work along State Highway 156 and barriers to leaving
Background and earlier position: colonial criminalization, de-notification, and persistence of economic logic
Celebrated at birth, pushed into sex… | Samachar Pathshala
