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Water is most essential but scarce resource in our country. Total water resources include surface water and ground water. Groundwater which is the main source for irrigation and drinking in the most part of the world constitutes about 89% of the total fresh water resources in the planet. But in recent years, due to over exploitation of ground water and erratic nature of monsoon, there has been depletion of ground water across the world. Due to limited supply of surface water, the water requirement for different purposes is largely met from the available groundwater resources. However, with increasing pace of industrialization during the past few decades, groundwater contamination has become a growing concern. The increasing dependence on ground water as a reliable source of water has resulted in its large scale and often indiscriminate development in various parts of the country without due regard to the recharging of aquifers and other environmental factors. The unplanned and unscientific development of ground water resources, mostly driven by individual initiatives, has led to an increasing stress on the available resources. The adverse impacts can be observed in the form of long term decline of ground water levels, de saturation of aquifer zones, increased energy consumption for lifting water from progressively deeper levels and quality deterioration due to saline water intrusion in coastal areas in different parts of the country. On the other hand, there are areas in the country, where ground water development is still low key in spite of the availability of sufficient resources. The canal command areas suffer from problems of water logging and soil salinity due to the gradual rise in ground water levels. Once groundwater is contaminated, cleaning process become difficult and entire system can pose serious health problem to human settlements. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to ascertain the extent of groundwater management caused by existing industries and agricultural activities. The protection of the child has emerged as an important area of scientific work. It has been seen that a large number of children are exploited for their rights. Children, lost into trafficking, are used for begging pornography, sexual abuse, organ trading, drug-peddling and prostitution. This is a universal problem in all groups of the society, but with referred to the Lambada tribes, this is very high particularly in Andhra Pradesh state. To safeguard these women and children, the parents are to be given awareness programmes as to how they are clandestinely transported into the cruel clutches of slavery and prostitution. Particularly the Lambada women and girl children are often moved into this business because of the texture and beauty of their skin and persona. Superstitions of the tribes are also additives for their being easily trapped into trafficking.<br/>Since the independence of the country the Central and State Governments are implementing various policies and programmes for protecting children from trafficking and its associated issues. But in gross root level the policies, programmes; and laws are not achieving their target. The governments have been treating trafficking as human trafficking for sexual trade till the 2000 year. But, after the UNTCO conceptualized wider definition of trafficking countries the world over have taken in the newer directions. But in India, the government has not taken sufficient steps towards the protection of the child in that direction. In the study, It has been tried to focus on the meaning, nature, magnitude, causes and consequences of child trafficking with special reference to Lambada Tribes of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State. |
