National Tracking System for Missing and Vulnerable Children
New Delhi: The Ministry of Women and Child Development has created “Track Child portal”, to track the missing and found children. Police Stations, Juvenile Justice Boards and Child Care Institutions are required to update the information about missing and found children regularly. The details of cases of missing and found children reported on the portal in the last five years, year-wise is as follows;
| S. No. | Year | Total No. of Missing Children | Total No. of Found Children |
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2016 | 46088 | 41931 |
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2017 | 47082 | 43251 |
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2018 | 48875 | 40296 |
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2019 | 49279 | 44289 |
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2020
(1st January 2020 to 31st January, 2021) |
43515 | 38113 |
This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.