Bangladesh and Nepal are set to introduce online children tracking system, which has been proved a success in India to find missing children, a Saarc official said in New Delhi.
“Bangladesh and Nepal will replicate the Track Child project and the Indian government has offered help to Bangladesh in this regard. Bilateral discussions are in progress. The programme is scheduled for 2014,” said Rinchen Chophel, director general, South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) on Saturday, reports BSS.
The SAIEVAC is an inter-governmental Saarc apex body working for children’s rights in the region.
India’s union women and child development ministry launched the Integrated Child Protection Scheme in 2008 to trace missing children through real time data on children availing rehabilitation services under the project. It was introduced for the first time in West Bengal. Recently the central government has decided to expand the programme pan-India.
Currently, Plan International runs a Missing Child Alert project in Bangladesh, India and Nepal with participation from Pakistan.