181 children went missing from Jammu and Kashmir between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, official data from the Ministry of Women and Child Development reveals.
According to the data, during the same time period, 58,546 children across India went missing.
Prior to this, data from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) showed that by 2020, 627 children, including 350 boys and 277 girls, had disappeared in J&K.
In Jammu and Kashmir, 230 children, including 167 girls and 63 boys, went missing in just 2020.
According to NCRB data, only 29.2 percent of the missing children in J&K were ever found.
Child Welfare Committees in J&K have saved and rehabilitated 817 children, including child labourers, as part of the Mission Vatsalya Scheme.
The government reported that 35 kids were arrested for drug-related offences in the last five years, including those covered by the 1985 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.