Operation Smile and Milap

• The Ghaziabad Police, Uttar Pradesh launched an operation named Operation Smile in the month of September, 2014 to identify, track, locate, rescue and rehabilitate children who went missing and found to be subjected to abuse and exploitation. Thereafter, Government of Uttar Pradesh implemented a similar operation throughout the State.

• Delhi Police have also launched a special drive `Operation Milap to reunite missing children with their parents through the Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTU).

• Ministry of Home Affairs also took an initiative in this regard and directed all the State Governments/ UTs to launch a sustained campaign for a month in January, 2015 on the lines of  'Operation Smile'.