According to Home Ministry report tabled in the Parliament last month, on an average one lakh children go missing in the country every year. The Ministry data says that over 3.25 lakh children went missing in the country between 2011 and 2014 (till June this year). The number of children missing in India is far more than our neighbouring countries of Pakistan and China where merely 3,000 and 10,000 are reported to be missing every year.
If records of the National Crime Records Bureau are to be believed one child going missing in the country every eight minutes. What has come to be a major cause of concern that almost 55% per cent of those missing are girls. Surprisingly of all the children who are reported missing every year, 45% of them have remained untraceable which raises fear of them having been either killed or pushed into begging or prostitution rackets by child traffickers.
Of all states in our country, Maharashtra is one of the worst states in terms of missing children with over 50,000 having disappeared in the past three and half years.
The NCRB report is a major cause of concern for all of us, given children are future of our country. Our government needs to take a serious note of this gruesome fact and devise ways either to prevent children from going missing or take stern steps to trace back our children who go missing for various reasons.
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