Around 10 personnel have already been trained under the project. According to Sahayavani convenor Brinda, ``They are there when the first train (at 4 am) and the last bus (11.15 pm) come into the City. They take the children who seem lost to shelters like the one in Gandhi Nagar''.

A measure of the problem is that each trained person normally `spots' 15 children from bus stands and railway stations every day. The children hail mostly from Gulburga, Raichur, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Each case is thoroughly investigated and ``if poverty is notthe main cause for fleeing from home, the children are reunited with their parents,'' Brinda said. So far, only four children have refused to reveal their true addresses or go back home.