JEEVIKA didis are conducting door-to-door visits to identify dropouts Patna: As part of the Localised Sustainable Development Goals (LSDGs), the govt has intensified efforts to make gram panchayats more women-and child-friendly by bringing out-of-school girls back to classrooms.Across 171 blocks, elected panchayat representatives and members of JEEVIKA self-help groups are leading a coordinated campaign to…
Children in Street Situation policy proposed identification and enumeration; individual care plans; and coordinated intervention by govt departments Sridevi* was 10 when she was found living on the streets of Semmancheri with her grandparents. The family had no identity documents, little food and no safe place to stay. Local vendors had begun pressuring her grandmother…
S Valli and her husband are one of several thousand homeless in Chennai, who live under bridges and flyovers; most are either street performers or guest workers Muskaan.Ahmed@timesofindia.comEvery few minutes, a train rattles past Velachery railway station as passing vehicles kick up clouds of dust into S Valli’s “home”. The 40-year-old lives under the flyover…
Rourkela: In a heart-rending case of poverty, a daily wager from Sundargarh district has surrendered three of his children to the Sundargarh child welfare committee, expressing his inability to raise them.The siblings — two daughters aged 10 and 8, and a son aged 5 — have since been placed in a children’s home in Rourkela…
Daltonganj: A heartfelt appeal for support by a six-year-old girl from Osaney village in Palamu district’s Chainpur block, which went viral after being shared by a local social media influencer, prompted deputy commissioner Dilip Pratap Singh Shekhawat to visit her family and extend immediate support on Saturday.Lalita Kumari had urged the DC through the video…
Telangana high court has said it will deliver an order on Friday whether to grant interim protection from arrest to MoS (Home) Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son, Bandi Sai Bageerath, who was named an accused in a POCSO case for allegedly sexually harassing a minor. The court also directed police to verify the allegations that the…
