With the nationwide launch of an AI-powered tool ‘Raksha’ to combat various crimes against children such as child trafficking, child marriage and the alarming spread of Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM), Rajasthan may find the tool as a crucial opportunity to combat the rising crimes in the state.
As per the National Crime Records Bureau 2023, of the total 177335 crimes against children across the country, Rajasthan alone recorded 10577 such crimes in 2023. Developed by Just Rights for Children, the unique tool analyses nationwide data and deploys advanced AI capabilities to enable realtime mapping, track heat zones, identify vulnerable families and track the organized crime of trafficking.
The tool named ‘Raksha’ was launched at ‘Prosperity Futures: Child Safety Tech Summit’ which is the official pre-summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026. The Summit was organised by Just Rights for Children (JRC), along with strategic partner India Child Protection, in affiliation with MeitY. Applauding the first-ever such AI tool in the field of child protection, Jitin Prasada, Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said, “True measure of technology lies in the protection of the most vulnerable. Children represent our future and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that the digital world they are in and will inherit is safe, inclusive and empowering. I am pleased to know that Just Rights for Children is launching AI-enabled child safety technology for prosperity, empowerment, trust and protection. Raksha tool encapsulates the values of safeguarding children, ensuring a strengthened child protection system.”
Just Rights for Children is one of the largest networks with over 250 civil society organisations working across 451 districts for child protection. The Network has 17 NGO partners working in 38 districts of Rajasthan.
With timely intervention and invisibility being two of the most crucial challenges in addressing crimes against children such as child marriage, child trafficking, and online abuse, this AI-empowered tool can be a game changer for law enforcement agencies, communities, and grassroots organisations. Rajasthan has been witnessing an alarming rise in such crimes with 7653 in 2021 which rose to 9370 in 2022.
Emphasising on how Raksha can transform the child protection ecosystem, Bhuwan Ribhu, Founder of Just Rights for Children, said, “India is at the forefront of using AI to strengthen child protection systems and advance child prosperity. ‘Raksha’ marks a landmark moment in India’s global leadership in establishing the largest child protection ecosystem in the world using technology. Using Raksha as the platform, India may be able to track every child in need of care and protection and every vulnerable family using technology. By transforming data into knowledge and action, this approach is expanding access to justice, improving service delivery for vulnerable families and reinforcing India’s commitment to safe, secure and prosperous futures for children. Together we shall use technology for every child.”
Raksha, designed to ‘Predict, Prevent and Protect’ in the child protection ecosystem, targets with its three focussed tools. The first Raksha tool acts on prevention by reducing economic vulnerability of families at a mass scale, thus targeting child marriage. The second tool combats the organized economic crime of trafficking by pre-empting and preventing it before it takes place on one side, and following the money to identify the tentacles of the organized crime syndicates on the other. The third tool strengthens digital child protection by detecting, analysing, and mapping online heat zones and IP addresses associated with the creation, upload, download, and consumption of CSEAM.