Child rights activists have demanded that monitoring at major stations on the Patna-Mumbai route be beefed up to check child trafficking. On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour on Sunday, officials of the Mumbai-based NGO, Pratham, which has been working against child labour for years and has been carrying out its activities in Bihar in collaboration with the State government, said vigilance only on the exit and entry points wasn’t enough. Pratham is in talks with the RPF and the railway authorities to tighten vigil at various stations. “There are six major stations between Patna and Mumbai, and a strong vigil is needed on the route. They said traffickers now know the stations where there is a vigil, and board the train, say two stations ahead,” said Kishor Bhamre, director, Pratham Council for Vulnerable Children. He said if there is heavy monitoring at Kurla and Kalyan, traffickers get off with the children at Igatpuri and travel to Mumbai by road.

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