What: ReUnite app
Who: Bachpan Bachao Andolan
Why: Tracing missing children
- Shri Suresh Prabhu,Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, on June 29, 2018 launched a mobile application called ReUnite which helps to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.
- The app is developed by the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan & Capgemini.
- The app is multi user where parents and citizens can upload pictures of children, and provide detailed description like name, birth mark, address, report to the police station, search and identify missing kids. The photographs will not be saved in the mobile phone’s physical memory.
- Amazon Rekognition, web facial recognition service, is being used to identify missing kids. The app is available for both Android and iOS.
About Bachpan Bachao Andolan
- Bachpan Bachao Andolan, (BBA), founded by the Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, is India’s largest movement for the protection of children and works along with law enforcement agencies and policymakers. BBA has played a very important role in formulation of several lawsfor protection of child’s rights.
- It began from the Nithari case in 2006 which finally culminated with the Supreme Court passing the landmark judgement in 2013 ordering that FIR has to be lodged in all cases of missing children.
