41,193 children rescued, 4960 missing women traced under Operation Muskan: CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday (July 16, 2025) revealed within the legislative meeting that, beneath Operation Muskan, 41,193 kids had been rescued and 4,960 lacking ladies had been traced, and 1,364 lacking kids had been traced inside a month beneath Operation Shodh. 

Calling the difficulty of lacking ladies a actuality, Mr. Fadnavis acknowledged that in a single month from April to Could, 4960 lacking ladies had been traced and got here throughout 106 ladies and 703 kids, who had been lacking, however the case was registered.

Responding to the query of MLC state legislative council Ambadas Danve, Mr. Fadnavis mentioned, “We’re but to successfully work on this challenge, and but to faucet into the difficulty from the social angle. Nevertheless, we may also embrace the lacking particular person challenge in “Police Kaka” and “Police Didi”, which marketing campaign for good touch-bad contact and different initiatives.” 

Mr. Danve urged that the federal government conduct a social examine to know the trigger, reasonably than treating it as a job. “There are hotspots from the place ladies go lacking; these areas lack seen policing. The impression on floor degree is just attainable whether it is seen as a social accountability. Apart from, these points are to be seen from social angles, together with little one marriage and sexual violence,” he added.

The problem of lacking ladies was raised within the meeting after Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC Sunil Shinde requested for the standing of the proposal to ‘Monitor lacking ladies’.

“All states are linked to the Centre’s lacking ladies portal. The progress might be used to file a consolidated report,” Mr. Fadnavis responded.

Citing Nagpur’s case, Mr. Fadnavis mentioned, “5897 ladies had been lacking, out of which 5210 had been traced. This implies 90% of the instances had been traced. Nevertheless, an issue arises in 4 to five% of instances, which works on the again burner.” 

To resolve this challenge, Mr. Fadnavis has requested to ascertain a lacking cell at every police station to maintain observe of those instances and an IPS-level officer to overview the work each two months.