Sub-Inspectors, Inspectors, from district crime record bureau and special juvenile police units and staff of district child protection units (CPU) from 11 districts namely — Annupur, Satna, Rewa, Damoh, Chhatarpur, Sidhi, Shahdol, Tikamgarh, Panna, Singrauli, Umaria — are participating in a two-day training programme on Child Tracking System.
This online national portal will help in tracking missing children and also entering data to recovered children. The training programme is being organised here on Monday by Police department in partnership with UNICEF office for Madhya Pradesh.
Inaugurating the training programme Inspector General CID Dinesh Chand Sagar said that this is step towards providing protection to children of the State.
We plan to roll this State wide, and this will help in not only making the data of missing children online but also entering data of recovered children and increasing linkage with other departments like Women and Child Development department. As per the data from year 2004 till May 2013; 83,987 children were missing, 71 932 were recovered back.
Inspector General Rewa RK Gupta, Arvind Dubey AIG CID- Crime, Akash Jindal, Superiendent of Police Rewa, also guided the participants.
PJ lolichen Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF office for Madhya Pradesh said that this partnership is to help strengthen child protection system in the State and this is one component for the same.
While we work on this we are also in process of building capacities of various stakeholders who can contribute enhancing protection of children in the State.
Chand Kiran Chokkar and Prem Kumar from National Informatics Centre are training the participants.
Track Child is national online portal being maintained by National Informatics Centre which aims to support online tracking of children and maintaining the profile of children so that child can not only be tracked nationally. It helps in increasing convergence with other departments and portal has user interface for various departments and also citizens.