Shillong, Dec. 10:An NGO will come up with a software to provide the national and international link for anti-human trafficking units to collaborate in reporting and sharing information.

Under the Impulse Case Info Centre, Impulse NGO Network decided to develop the software as the number of human trafficking cases in the Impulse Case Info Centre database was becoming hard to manage manually.

According to Hasina Kharbhih of Impulse NGO Network, the network has received 4,665 anti-human trafficking cases from different parts of the Northeast in the past eight years. The Impulse Case Info Centre recognised that anti-human trafficking units in India needed a software for systematic documentation of trafficking cases, Kharbhih told a gathering of NGOs, faith-based organisations, and social groups here.

The gathering was organised by the Meghalaya state commission for women to discuss the rise of crimes against women coinciding with International Human Rights Day.

Kharbhih also said the software would provide anti-human trafficking units a 'fast and systematic communication' channel across the country to share case information, documents, and updates on human trafficking cases.

'All the anti-human trafficking units have their specific user accounts in the software, enabling them to see only the cases that they have registered or cases that have been referred to them. This ensures that necessary confidentiality and privacy standards are followed,' she said.

She also said the software has an alert feature, enabling different units to realise if any other unit is, or has been, managing a case involving the same human trafficking victim or the same trafficker.

'The software is currently under finalisation and it will be launched by early next year in the eight northeastern states free of charge,' Kharbhih said.

The software will register information on victims' personal details, family background, information on disappearance, suspected trafficker, suspected trafficking route, probe information and others.

Giving statistics of the crime against women in the state, superintendent of police (state crime records bureau) D.N. Jyrwa explained to the gathering the steps being taken to address the crimes.

While women police stations have been set up in the district headquarters in the old seven districts, SPs have been asked to verify the antecedents of job-placement agencies to prevent the likelihood of women trafficking.

North East Network representative Gina Phanbuh said since 2011, the NGO had set up the Iohlynti Support Centre at the Shillong Civil Hospital, which has now been relocated to Ganesh Das Hospital, a women and child hospital.