A one day Workshop on National Tracking System for Missing and Vulnerable Children was held at the Zonal Council Hall, Kohima, Nagaland on 7th March 2013. The Presentation was given to the State Integrated Child Protection Scheme ICPS Officials, Police Officials and others by the National Informatics Centre team from West Bengal led by Dr Goutam Mukherjee, STD. The welcome and Key Note address was given by the Chairman, State Child Protection Society SCPS and Secretary Social Welfare.
The issue of missing and untraced children has become a matter of concern over the years and chances of tracing these children has increased significantly by introduction of computerized databases and computerized search relating to lost and found children created and maintained by various States and UTs through ‘missing person bureau’ under the state police and the child care institutions maintained by the state women and children departments under Integrated Child Protection Scheme ICPS and under Juvenile Justice Act, JJA respectively which are linked and converged.
Further, hands-on training for the officials of ICPS and Police was conducted by NIC team. It may be mentioned that the information based application developed by NIC under the Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, New Delhi is available at http://trackthemissingchild.gov.in/trackchild .
