State nod awaited for child rescue project roll out.

Why it is in news?

Having set up a district task force earlier this week to monitor the implementation of Operation Sarana Balyam, a project aimed at rescuing children from labour and begging, Social Justice Department officials in the district are awaiting a direction from the government for the district-level rollout of the project.

Children Rescue Project

  • The project is now being run in Pathanamthitta, Kollam, Kottayam and Alappuzha districts, with the government proposing to expand it across Kerala state.
  • Minister for Social Justice told the Assembly that 41 children vending various goods and housed in unhygienic conditions had been rescued under the project in the past two years
  • The district task force chaired by the District Collector and the District Child Protection Officer as convener also has representatives of police, Health, Education, SC/ST Development and Forest departments.
  • Once a tip-off is received on child labour or beggary, the children will be rescued with police protection, if it so warranted, and produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).
  • Social Justice Department sources said that,it was fully set to implement the project in the district upon receiving directions from the government.
  • Apart from checking child labour and beggary, the project aims at identifying the whereabouts of destitute migrant children found in streets and deporting them back to their homes. That again calls for temporary shelters.

Source

The Hindu

Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 10th Feb 2018
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