“Untill now, none of the existing sites on missing children across the country have any standardised tracking system in place,” said an NIC official.

The plan is to ensure that all daily diary entries on missing children are uploaded on the site for 100 per cent reporting of cases. This will also help officials to act fast on the cases. The parametre of how photographs of missing children would appear on the site are still being discussed.

The data will be made available in three languages — English, Bengali and Hindi. NIC engineers have also been given counselling sessions to acquaint themselves with children-specific problems and issues, including the non-precise information given by them.

NIC, West Bengal, Director Subir Roy said, “Once the West Bengal project is fully operational, we will extend it to four other states — Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. Sinha added that they are insisting on more than the customary number of physical identification features, like details of nose structure and if the child has broken teeth, etc.