# Prakasam joint collector flags off anti-trafficking rally 2026-08-16T00:07:57+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Prakasam joint collector Kalpana Kumari flagged off a large awareness rally in Ongole on Thursday to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. She said human trafficking is the second largest crime in the world and warned that traffickers use social media to lure victims with false promises of love and jobs. Kumari added that poor people are taken to other states and foreign countries and forced into prostitution. She urged officials to hold monthly coordination meetings through the district Anti-Human Trafficking Unit and to closely track missing girls and women. ## Coverage - thehansindia.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Kalpana Kumari, Ongole, Prakasam, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/prakasam-joint-collector-flags-off-anti-trafficking-rally/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/prakasam-joint-collector-flags-off-anti-trafficking-rally/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/