New Delhi: The newly-launched Khoya-Paya portal by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has notched up success with more than 150 missing children being reunited with their families.
Since its launch on June 2, around 1,500 cases of missing/sighted children have been reported. As on September 12, there were a total of 148 girls and 383 boys misssing, details available on the portal said.
Haryana had the maximum number of 18 girls and 132 boys missing followed by Chandigarh with 49 girls and 30 boys missing with another North Indian state, Punjab having 27 girls and 12 boys untraced. Uttar Pradesh was placed fourth having reported eight girls and 46 boys missing.
Barring Bihar which reported (5 girls and 15 boys), Delhi (6 and 23), and Himachal Pradesh (3 girls and 11 boys), the number of missing children in these states, going by the portal, did not exceed double digits.
The Khoya Paya portal, a citizen-based website to exchange information on missing and found children, has been developed by the MWCD and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under its centrally sponsored Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) to track the missing and found children.
The portal is a web platform for people to directly report, track and upload information on missing children.
Within a little over three months, the portal had a success of 172 girls and 1,146 boys since its launch. What made it unique was the portal is used as social medium for people to share information about untraced children.
But going by the TrackChild portal, the portal’s figures are just a mere drop in the ocean as the number of missing children runs into more than a lakh.
During a more than two year period of January 1, 2012 to July 26, 2015, 153,265 children were reported missing, 92,797 children were found and 62,474 children matched through TrackChild portal, the minister told the Lok Sabha in reply to a question during the Monsoon session.
