Entire India is experiencing severe drought like situation and farmers with no other option and increasing loans, they are ending their lives committing suicides. However successive governments in various states are just ignoring the problem and infact blaming media for highlighting insignificant issues.



Even two telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are witnessing extreme drought like situations and in a shocker it is comingout that women are forced to resort to prostitution. In the villages of Anantapur,Rayalaseema region women are forced into prostitution to make both ends meet.



Ramadevi who who gets Rs 3000 per month for selling her body speaking to scribes says "There had been no rain for years, and no work. My friend said how long will you live without work. He said he has a job that can ensure a good future for my children. So I took up the job as a sex worker. I had no other option. Many a times clients would beat me, force me to drink alcohol and travel to different cities along with them. But I have to tolerate everything,"


Sharing her ordeal she laments "My children hate me. I feel bad. Lot of people are doing this here but nobody gets to know their problems. If government comes and helps, women can be engaged in better work. I also did not want to become a sex worker. Sometimes I feel I want to die and not live such a life. I want government to ensure nobody becomes like me or suffers like me,"


Naga Lakshmi victim of poverty fell prey to one of the dozen agents operating in the region. she said "They would beat us for refusing clients. Even a 10-year-old girl was given injections. She cried a lot but customers forced themselves on her too. Once they put chili in my eyes and mouth. My face got swollen and I could not eat food for several days,"


She was rescued in 2015 and NGO Rural and Development Society (REDS) operating in Kadiri,helped her set up a grossery store. She is working to bring awareness among women in the region. REDS secretary C.Bhanuja shared "Government or politicians are not interested in social issues. For them women and children are the last priority. There is relief only for agricultural-based activity, and not for such victims. This is the reason why the situation remains the same,"


According to NGO records 440 women are now sex workers in the region and over 848 girls have been trafficked to the brothers in Delhi,Mumbai,Pune and Kolkata.

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