Dhaka, June 27 -- According to UNICEF, the children who live on the road or have livelihoods in the street, are called street children. There are different opinions on the number of street children. In 2004, BIDS survey said, this number will reach 16 hundred thousand in 2024. But who are actually the street children now? If the children who are on the pathways, playing, sleeping and living, are street children, what is their number? The mentioned study apparently has become very old. It is very important to have a new realistic. So, if the actual number of street children is not known now, it would be far-fetched to create practical plans for street children program activities.

According to National Child Policy 2011, section 6.2.3, in ...