13 Lakh!-Alarming Number of Girls, Women Missing in India
According to a press release from the home ministry, it is up to the individual state governments to uphold law and order, including the investigation and prosecution of crimes against women. It mentioned additional steps it had taken to protect women, such as creating a database of “sexual offenders.”
According to government statistics, more than 13.13 lakh women and girls went missing in the country between 2019 and 2021, with the majority coming from Madhya Pradesh.
At least 90,113 young women under the age of 18 were among the 375,058 women over the age of 18 who were reported missing nationwide in 2021.
Data from the Union Home Ministry that was presented to Parliament last week shows that between 2019 and 2021, there were 10,61,648 women over the age of 18 and 2,51,430 girls who were minors who went missing across the nation.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has gathered the information.
In Madhya Pradesh, between 2019 and 2021, 1,60,180 women and 38,234 girls went missing, according to information given to Parliament.
1,78,400 women and 13,033 girls went missing in Maharashtra, the state with the second-highest number of missing women and girls, during the time period under consideration.
In the three years, 16,649 girls and 70,222 women went missing in Odisha.
Delhi had the most girls and women reported missing of any of the Union Territories. Between 2019 and 2021, 61,054 women and 22,919 girls went missing in Delhi. In the same time frame, 1,148 girls and 8,617 women went missing in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018, which was passed to effectively deter sexual offenses, is one of the “a numbers of initiatives for the safety of women across the country,” according to the government’s statement to Parliament. The law places more emphasis on punishing the guilty and prescribes even harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for the rape of girls under the age of 12.
In order to help law enforcement agencies better track and investigate sexual offenders across the nation, the home ministry also announced that it had launched the National Database on Sexual Offenders on September 20, 2018.
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According to a press release from the ministry, it is up to the individual state governments to uphold law and order, including the investigation and prosecution of crimes against women.
Given the campaign slogan “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao,” BJP governments have been increasingly hesitant to address the safety of women. Only a few recent examples of pressure on the Union government and BJP state governments include reports of widespread sexual violence in Manipur, where the chief minister of the BJP claimed that “hundreds of such incidents” had occurred, as well as what critics refer to as the protection given to BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh, who leads the WFI, despite a protracted uproar by women wrestlers and serious allegations of sexual molestation.
