Ghasipura: Even as labour migration has reportedly been rampant in various tribal pockets of Keonjhar district, a 17-year-old girl from Barmal under Ghasiura block, who had gone to Andhra Pradesh for daily waging six months ago, has not returned home till date. Her parents, a harried lot, have been waiting for her.
Chaturbhuja Jena, the father of the girl Gitanjali, has sought help of the police and urged the administration to rescue her.
Jena said his daughter had gone to Balkunda in AP six months ago to work in a company. Tripati Patra, a contractor of Berhampur, had taken his daughter and some other girls of the village to provide them work.
Two of the girls came back to the village May 6. When Gitanjali’s parents asked the two about their daughter, the former stated that they had not seen Gitanjali since the night of May 5.
The couple is extremely worried. They lodged a written complaint about their daughter’s missing.
Police asked the two girls who have returned to the village and collected information from them about Gitanjali.
However, the police refused to receive the complaint and advised her parents to take the help of Childline, citing a reason that the girl was a minor.
Meanwhile, the couple sought the help of Anandapur Childline Tuesday.
