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
	2016	46088	41931
	2017	47082	43251
	2018	48875	40296
	2019	49279	44289
	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.

 

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