The number of missing children in India is alarmingly high

REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal-Between 1 January and 8 May 2013, 725 children were reported missing in New Delhi, according to India’s Zonal Integrated Police Network sites. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), one child goes missing every eight minutes. There are officially over 55,000 children missing,


 REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal-Chandravati holds shorts belonging to her daughter Muskaan. Her daughter was lost three years ago while playing with her friends not far from home.

REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal-A photo of then three-year-old Tyaba. Her parents said she went missing during a family friend's wedding reception in 2009.