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Suresh Prabhu Launched ReUnite Mobile App To Track Missing Children In India
Suresh Prabhu Unveiled ReUnite App To Track Missing Children In India- Details, Features, Aim, Purpose
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi Suresh Prabhu on 29th June 2018 unveiled a mobile application named ‘ReUnite’ in order to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.
The ReUnite App has been developed jointly by NGO ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ and IT major Capgemini. It will work to reunite parents with their children who have gone missing.
The ReUnite App is multiuser where parents and citizens can upload pictures of children, and provide detailed description like name, birth-mark, address, report to the police station, search and identify missing kids. The photographs will not be saved in the mobile phone’s physical memory.
Amazon Rekognition, web facial recognition service, is being used within the ReUnite App to identify missing kids.
The ReUnite App is available for both Android and iOs users for free download.
Background
As per the report, every year, around 44,000 children go missing in India, of which only 11,000 children are rescued.
Approximately, 117480 children were reported missing, 74209 were traced and 41546 remained untraced in two years between 2008 and 2010.
Among 20 states and 4 UTs, Maharashtra (26211) reported the highest number of missing children followed by West Bengal (25413), Delhi (13,570) and Madhya Pradesh (12,777).
