CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM
21/August/2012
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 1436
ANSWERED ON:  21.08.2012
CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM
SHASHI THAROOR
 
Will the Minister of



HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:-




(a) whether a nationwide Child Tracking System on missing children has been developed under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme; and 

(b) if so, the details thereof?


ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI JITENDRA SINGH) 

(a) to (b) Ministry of Women and Child Development in consultation with Ministry of Home Affairs is developing a National Portal for tracking of ‘missing’ and ‘found’ children. The project envisages creating an exclusive website for tracking of missing and found children. It is designed to have two parts as ‘Missing’ and ‘Found’ section where every particular of the missing / found children; like physical attributes, place of missing / recovery, special identification marks etc. will be stored in database. The special software along with search engine, which is being developed, can match the identical parameters within its database to facilitate identification of recovered children. 


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