INNOCENT BABY Falak is still battling for life in All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) without any of her faults and her condition remained critical with only 50% survival chances. The teenager who brought baby Falak alleged that she was a victim of sex trade. Police is working on various theories to catch the culprit. It is not only baby Falak, yesterday in Bangalore, an infant was found abandoned in a box by garbage pickers. It shows how little we value our young live in country.

It seems that baby Falk is a victim of child trafficking. In India, girl child is neglected, but issues have brought question of child safety and it security. “Actually, this is not the first case; child trafficking is common practice in India. It is shame on us, how poorly we behave with girl child,” said Tamana, 24, a researcher for girl child development. “I blame our system which has lacks proper way of functioning and second it is our society which has hardly any respect for girl child’ added Reema Bhasin, a homemaker.

Fact is that country does not have single system to register, track and monitor the cases of missing children despite the multiple authorities looking for girl child welfare. There is no constructive database of missing children due to regular rise in population. According to report of Institute of Social Sciences, more than 50,000 children go missing every year. The number of missing girl children is higher than male children. Approximately 15,000 children are never tracked. In most of cases police refuses to register any missing report. The 2010 report of National Crime Records Bureau has reported data of 11,000 cases of children kidnapping and abduction during the year. It is a significant increase by 20% compared to last year data. The children of poor people who are living in slums, poor communities, unauthorized, resettlement colonies are widely affected by trafficking or running away or getting lost.

Sanjay (name changed), a 30-year-old maid servant in Defence Colony said that it is really difficult to register a case with the police. “I lost two girls in 2006 and till date I have no information about them. As crime rates are increasing so police department is under pressure to control the crime first and it is reason that they do not take these cases seriously," he alleged.

Need of hour is to make our system more accountable by keeping all records of missing children and better administration including implementation plan. It is shame, we talked about young population but hardly care for next generation. We should learn lesson from baby Falak’s condition.