45,000 Children go missing every year in India

As per figures of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), every year 45,000 children go missing in India. These are the cases which are reported but as per NGOs working in the field, only 10 percent of all cases are registered with the police, so the actual numbers could be several times higher, said a report published in a leading English daily 'Hindustan Times' quoting NHRC.

Most children are reported missing from the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa where the 'trafficking of children has become a highly profitable business'. Traffickers target low-income families, and their tactics range from drugging and abduction to persuasion and deception, the report says. As per the report, most missing children remain untraced because the police do not try, and their stories are not taken up in the media. Read more..................45,000 children go missing every year in India

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