Union Home Ministry has given a directive to all the State Governments to launch the second phase of Operation Smile in July. The success of the first phase that was conducted in January this year to trace the missing children across the country seems to have enthused the Union Home Ministry to embark on the second chapter of the drive. Acting on the instruction, Uttarakhand additional director general of police has given direction to superintendents of police of all the districts of the state to conduct three- day legal training workshops to train police personal and the members of the constituted teams in the first week of June.
The three- day legal training workshop was started in the police line at district headquarters Pauri by the superintendent of police Ajay Joshi on Wednesday. Two teams were formed under sub- inspector, in-charge anti- human trafficking unit Kotdwar Yogendra Singh Gusain and sub- inspector Thana Srinagar Satendra Kumar Bhatti at the district level.
Joshi and CO Dhan Singh Tomar who is nodal officer of Operation Smile briefed the police personal at the workshop. Joshi stressed that after the workshop is over, full details of the registered missing children will be prepared in the second week of June and these details would be provided to police headquarters by 25 June. Under the second phase, the drive will be launched at shelter homes, factories, bus stations, railway stations, hotels, roads and religious places where the possibility of recovering the missing children is bright. The information of the missing children would be given in the web portable of child welfare ministry. The names of the children to be recovered thus in course of the drive will be published in newspapers and through the electronic media channels to ensure that the parents contact police.