CSWs on the rise in Dimapur
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, September 20 2013 :
The frequent drive against commercial sex workers (CSWs) in Nagaland commercial hub Dimapur by police and IRB personnel failed to bear any result as number of CSWs are fast rising in the city.
As the winter approaches both professional and part-time prostitutes prepare to have their days.
Three months ago, a Dimapur daily had reported that there were about 4000 (four thousand) sex workers in Dimapur alone with 50% of them are local women.
However, an NGO could registered only 870 sex workers since majority of them refused to reveal themselves.
Most of the sex workers are in the age group of 16 to 40.
Christmas season is where the sex workers earn the most, said sources.
By simple logic, Dimapur being the commercial hub, people from all the districts of Nagaland and from Manipur throng to Dimapur every year for marketing as this time of the year is when the harvests are over.
The commercial sex workers make the most out of this season.
According to sources, female college students are also indulging in the business actively.
Otherwise, married women, unmarried women and divorcees are usually take the mainstream in business.
Meanwhile, besides the Dimapur district administration, the NSCN-IM is also actively carrying out against the sex workers in Dimapur.
From time to time, the NSCN-IM have been apprehending these sex workers in Dimapur.
Last month, some sex workers from Assam were apprehended by the NSCN-IM and warned them not to repeat such activities in future.
Few years ago, the Dimapur police had frequently conducted vigil operation in Dimapur as young boys and girls on the pretext of going for morning walk used to indulge in these immoral activities.
These youths mostly school children used to be seen in the streets of Dimapur as early as 2 am.
These children used to leave homes telling their guardians that they had gone as 'morning walk'.
According to the police, youths were rounded up in many places as some of them were caught in compromising positions.
That was few years ago.
However, the so called 'morning walk' continues even these days by the school children as early as 2 am but do the police bother to care the ongoing trend ? Or for that matter, what are the parents doing? .