The problem is no longer limited only to sexual or commercial exploitation or forced labour in certain sectors for profit, it has now gone far beyond that. It has merged with other types of trafficking; be it drugs, weapons or counterfeit currencies providing a further boost to the menace generated by the globally networked criminal syndicates as well as different terror modules. Socio-economic vulnerabilities, inequities and marginalities definitely facilitate the game plans of local predators but now to add further to the woes they are being governed, controlled and driven by larger players whose elimination calls for different strategies. Allurements for overseas jobs and series of enormous remittances, besides exploitation and radicalization have been unearthed during investigations of various terror attacks.

In a recently organized program to commemorate Cancer Awareness Month for Children, many interesting facts came to the fore. Globally over 4 lac children under the age of 19 years contract cancer. In India this incidence is somewhere between 50-70 thousand. Uttar Pradesh being a very large state, the number of children contracting cancer would be nearly 4% of the global fallout. While developed countries have achieved the recovery rate close to 80%, the lower and middle level countries are stuck at a meagre level of 20-30 percent. However, the aim is to hit 60% recovery rate by the end of the current decade. One of the reasons for such a disparity is the lack of required medical infrastructure for early cancer detection in remote rural areas and the concentration of critical care centers only in the cities. Hence, delay in early detection results in loss of the golden opportunity for early effective treatment.

Life is all about awareness! An awareness till it becomes a conviction that comes to govern our choices in life. We have now almost reached a stage of a ‘DO or DIE’ in so far as the threats of climate change are concerned. It is not only changing the bio-conglomerations that sustain a healthy human life but is also destroying the very core elemental base that is so essential for our survival. All the developed countries in this world have undergone this ordeal in some form or the other over different timelines. Now the developing countries while on their path to higher strata of development are also encountering their own set of challenges. The cumulative effect has been drastic. It has resulted in upwardly moving the temperature level by a minimum of 1.5 degree Celsius.

The oscillations, besides other things, also included a muddy show of muscle power to money power and perpetrated violence to political manipulations. Finally, we have witnessed the emergence of a stable, strong, transparent and zero-error system that was ushered in by professionally managed ECI through the awakening of our Civic Society and the necessary adoption of distinctive strategies. These drives made a difference, encompassing, technology driven logistics, dynamic force-deployment modules, multilayer planning & supervision by different sets of capable observers. 2014 elections are on the anvil and it would be appropriate to glance through certain facts.