India
Over 3,700 children missing in India’s Assam state in 3 years
Guwahati: More than 3,700 children had gone missing in disturbed Assam state in India in last three years.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Women and Child Development Minister Ajanta Neog, while replying to a question raised by Congress MLA Bhaskar Jyoti Baruah in the state Assembly, said that over 3,779 children went missing from 2021 to 2023.
Several of them were rescued and handed back to their families wherever possible, or else they are taken care of by the government, she said.
She also said that cases of child trafficking cases are reported from almost all districts of the state, with Kamrup, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur and Biswanath accounting for most such crimes.
