'140 cases of missing children reported on Khoya-Paya closed'

140 of around 1,500 cases of missing children reported on portal 'Khoya-Paya' have been closed since the launch of the website by Ministry of Women and Child Development in June, the government today said.
"The website reported around 1,500 cases of missing/ sighted children. Approximately, 2,700 users have registered on the portal and around 1,500 have downloaded mobile application for usage through their mobile phones," Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
The web portal 'Khoya-Paya' was launched by the ministry on June 2 in assistance with Department of Electronics and Information Technology, to help families register details of missing children and citizens to report sightings of children.