After successful implementation of ‘Operation Smile’, the railway police started implementing ‘Operation Muskaan’ from Wednesday to trace missing and destitute children and reunite them with their parents, said Additional Superintendent of Police R. Rajavel.
Launching the campaign at Dindigul railway station on Wednesday, he said that this campaign would be a continuation of the Operation Smile. The campaign would continue till July 31.
The main aim of the programme was to prevent child trafficking and rescue children from persons who tried to engage them in begging, sexual trade and other antisocial activities.
Under this programme, specially trained police teams would screen all children residing in shelter homes, railway platforms, bus stands, roads and religious places. They would also extract required information from these children tactfully, he noted.
Later, the ASP and other railway police personnel distributed pamphlets containing all information about the operation to passengers on platform and in trains.