India has a very high volume of child trafficking. About 63 million girls and 97 million boys are in child labour. Every eight minutes, up to one child vanishes. Children are sometimes taken from their homes to be bought and sold on the market. In other cases, children are duped into falling into the hands of traffickers by being offered a job, only to be enslaved upon arrival. Traffickers prey on vulnerable families by making false promises of a new job, more money, and better living conditions.

In India, many children are trafficked for a variety of reasons, including labor, factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, agricultural workers, and sexual exploitation. More than 8 million children aged 5 to 14 work in fields, dangerous factories, shops, and homes. Child labour continues to thrive across India, and there are many different causes that lead to child trafficking, with poverty, weak law enforcement, and a lack of good quality public education being the primary reasons.