As per the official data put out by the Union Home Ministry of India in Parliament last month, it estimates that more than 3.25 lakh children went missing between 2011 and 2014 at an average of nearly 1 lakh children going missing every year. It exposes the neglect and behaviour of the administration in tracing the children who might have become victims of sexual harassment, human trafficking.
When this issue is raised in 5 dec 2013, an angry bench of supreme court had questioned government's negligence towards the 1.7 lakh missing children as reported at that time. "Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony," the court observed. It is biggest tragedy of India that nothing has changed since that time.
In the next 1.5 years, again 1.7 lakh children are missing and are still untraced. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in fact, concluded that after every 8 minutes , one child go missing.
The thing to worry is that 55% of them are girls and 45% remains still untracable which raises the fear of their being killed or they might have forced into begging or prostitution.
TOI reports that, Maharashtra is the worst state in terms of missing children with more than 50,000 missing in last 3.5 years. Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh are distant competitors with all recording less than 25,000 missing children for the period.
The worst thing is that their is no special focus on missing children in the govt. Administration for tracing them. Even police dont take such cases seriously.
Even if we see comparatively then the situation is more alarming in India. Indian neighbours have very less such cases. Pakistan officials reported only 3000 cases of missing children in a year.
If we say population is the reason for greater missing numbers then look at china. They have more population than us but the number of missing children is 10,000 which is one tenth of Indian figure. Really, PM modi must concentrate on this issue which has become a subject of national shame.
When this issue is raised in 5 dec 2013, an angry bench of supreme court had questioned government's negligence towards the 1.7 lakh missing children as reported at that time. "Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony," the court observed. It is biggest tragedy of India that nothing has changed since that time.
In the next 1.5 years, again 1.7 lakh children are missing and are still untraced. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in fact, concluded that after every 8 minutes , one child go missing.
The thing to worry is that 55% of them are girls and 45% remains still untracable which raises the fear of their being killed or they might have forced into begging or prostitution.
TOI reports that, Maharashtra is the worst state in terms of missing children with more than 50,000 missing in last 3.5 years. Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh are distant competitors with all recording less than 25,000 missing children for the period.
The worst thing is that their is no special focus on missing children in the govt. Administration for tracing them. Even police dont take such cases seriously.
Even if we see comparatively then the situation is more alarming in India. Indian neighbours have very less such cases. Pakistan officials reported only 3000 cases of missing children in a year.
If we say population is the reason for greater missing numbers then look at china. They have more population than us but the number of missing children is 10,000 which is one tenth of Indian figure. Really, PM modi must concentrate on this issue which has become a subject of national shame.