MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI GURUDAS KAMAT)
(a) to (c) As per the Data provided by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB),
a total of 6377, 7650 and 8,945 cases of kidnapping and abduction of children
were registered in the country during 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. As per
the data provided by National crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the number of children
reported as ‘missing’ and ‘traced’ for each of the year 2007,2008 and 2009, State/
UT wise including Delhi are as per Annexure.
(d) to (e): As per information provided by Ministry of Human Resource
Development, there is no proposal to install Track Magic (TM) system in the
transport vehicles. Moreover, education being in the concurrent list, most of
the schools come under the purview of the State Governments.
As per the seventh schedule to the Constitution of India “Police†and
“Public Order†are State subjects and, as such, the primary responsibility of
prevention, detection, registration, investigation and prosecution of crime,
lies with the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations. However,
Government of India is deeply concerned with the welfare of children and through
various schemes and advisories to the State Governments/Union Territory
Administrations, augments the efforts of the States/UTs.
A detailed advisory dated 14th July, 2010 has been sent by the Central
Government to all State Governments and UT Administrations wherein States/UTs
have been advised to ensure all steps for improving the safety conditions in
schools/institutions, public transport used by students, children’s parks/ play
grounds, residential localities/roads etc. It has also been advised that the
crime prone areas should be identified and a mechanism be put in place to monitor
infractions in such areas for ensuring the safety and security of students,
especially girls. For this purpose the States/UTs have been advised to take
following steps:
i. Increase the number of beat constables;
ii. Increase the number of police help booths/kiosks, especially in remote
and lonely stretches;
iii. Increase police patrolling, especially during nights;
iv. Posting police officers, especially women, fully equipped with policing
infrastructure in crime-prone areas in adequate number.
Besides this, the steps taken by Delhi Police include a 24X7 helpline
number for reporting missing person in the NCT region, advertisement in leading
newspapers, registration of FIRs, development of a web-based computer application
Zonal Integrated Police Net (ZIPNET) which deals with the information on missing
children. Clear instructions have been issued by Delhi Police vide the revised
standing order No.258/09 to register FIRs in each incident of untraced girl child
of 18 years of age and below and untraced boys of 12 years and below.
