Kathmandu, March 26 : Around 17,000 Nepalese women are involved in prostitution in four major Indian cities, Xinhua quoted a women's group as saying Saturday.
The Asmita Women's Publication Group, a non-governmental organisation, released the figure after surveys of brothels in the red light areas of New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata.
The NGO team talked to Nepali women in the brothels.
"Most of them (Nepali women) fall prey to the avarice of family members. Local brokers come second in the line of the process of selling them there," the study said.
The study quoted the International Labour Organisation statistics as saying over 10,000 Nepalese women are taken to India for prostitution every year.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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