Act strictly in exploitation of girls by NRIs: Sukhbir
January 10th, 2011 - 12:28 am ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS)) Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukbhir Singh Badal said Sunday that there were thousands of cases of girls from Punjab being exploited for marriage by people of Indian origin staying in Canada and strict action should be taken in all such complaints.Addressing queries from the gathering here at the concluding day of the ninth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas function here, Badal said that girls keep waiting for their husbands who stay with them for some days after marriage and then leave for foreign shores.
“Girls from Punjab are exploited for marriage. There are 25,000 cases in Canada,” he said.
Referring to complaints, Badal said that the men leave after week or ten days after the marriage and girls keep waiting for their husbands to come back.
He said there was need for an agreement with Canada for strict action in all such cases.
He said there were also some complaints of some non-resident Indians treating their parents virtually as care-takers of their children.
“Lots of families ask parents to come there to look after children. They are sometimes treated like servants,” he said.
Badal said the state government will start awareness campaign to make parents aware that they can face problems abroad despite an impression that “life is excellent there”.
“They (such parents) are most welcome to come back,” he said.
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