Re: 6.8 lakh sex workers in India, Delhi red-light capital

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Dear Forum,

Re: /message/11746

As I read in this posting,when it comes to total number of sex workers in the

country, the Govt. of India goes by the number reported by the TI NGOs to the

respective SACS.

But I wonder whether there is any mechanism to verify and validate these

numbers. Because in my experience working with TI NGOs, I have come across cases

of fudging numbers to achieve mapping targets.

Also I have never seen any internal mechanism with the implementing NGO to

verify any new enrollment / registration of any sex worker in their data base.

Also the data reported by TI NGOs are specific to those sex workers in the 'so

called' hot spots.

But as everybody know the 'hot spot' keeps changing.... but the NGO stops

enrollment as soon as they reach their target given by donors based on some

mapping work done before 3 or 4 years.

So surely we are missing a huge data and also we need to validate the existing

data to arrive at the numbers.

Dr.S.Raman

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