Bangalore: The Karnataka State Council for Child Welfare and the Child Rights Trust, a non-government organisation, in collaboration with the Department of Posts and the Women and Child Development Department will soon bring out "Child Protection Cards" to help safeguard child rights.

Announcing this at a meeting of voluntary organisations on missing children here on Tuesday, Vasudev Sharma of Child Rights Trust said anyone who wants to protect child rights and would like to report any violation can right can write on the card, which is in the form of an inland letter, and post it to P.O. Box no. 5555. The letters will be collected by the Child Welfare Committee, Bangalore Urban District, constituted under the Juvenile Justice Act and the committee will try to take action to set right the problem.

A Children's Parliament will be organised on February 7 and 8, where children will discuss issues pertaining to them and they will visit the legislature session and be witness to the proceedings there.

"A report of the analysis of Question Hour with regard to children's issues will also be released during this event," Mr. Sharma said.

The number of missing children in Bangalore and other parts of the State is increasing every day, but no concrete efforts are being made by the authorities concerned to look into this issue.

Moreover, there is no system for tracing these children, who may have run away from home because of some problems or have been trafficked, neither is there a centralised data bank of the numbers arriving in the city from other places or those who have been traced, representatives of various voluntary organisations told the meeting.

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