Officials of the South Central Railway (SCR), in association with various government departments and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), are making efforts to reunite the missing and rescued children with their families.
As a part it, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has launched a website to collect and display information of the rescued children, referred to different homes across the State.
Vijayawada Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) R. Dhananjayulu, Additional Director General (railways) K.R.M. Kishore Kumar, the then Senior Divisional Security Commissioner S.R. Gandhi and other officials launched the web portal in December last.
Joint operation
Mr. Dhananjayulu has said it is a joint operation of many departments of Central and State governments to help the parents of the missing children to trace their wards.
The RPF is gathering information of rescued children from the Child Welfare Committees (CWCs), Women Development and Child Welfare (WD&CW) Department, Government Railway Police (GRP), civil police, government homes, Railway Childline and NGOs, and placing the same on the website.
According to Vijayawada RPF officials, particulars of 74 children of both sex, who are below 18 years and kept in different homes, has been placed on the web portal so far.
“Information such as name, father’s name, photo, age of the child, native place, mother tongue, place and date of rescue, and contact number is placed on the website,” says Mr. Gandhi.
Details of the runaway, missing and rescued children of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra States have been put on the railway web portal. The website is being updated for every 15 days, says Mr. Dhananjayulu.
Website
“Family members of the missing children are requested to enter into www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in , go to divisions, then security and click on rescued children to trace their wards,” says the DRM.
The RPF rescued as many as 476 children in the division and some have been reunited with their families and the remaining are kept in Child Care Institutions (CCIs). Not only for parents, the newly launched web portal will help the police and NGOs working in AP and the neighbouring States to trace the missing, runaway and kidnapped children, according to the railway authorities.
The officials request the CCIs, police and other agencies to share information on missing and rescued children with the RPF to help their parents to trace their wards.
