Lucknow: To strengthen child safety, child welfare protection committees will be set up across 331 districts and 20,000 villages with support from NITI Aayog and Just Rights for Children. The initiative aims to ensure that children are in school, safe and protected through community-level awareness, monitoring and early intervention.Founder of Just Rights for Children, Bhuwan…
Ahmedabad: Amid concerns over school dropout rates, Gujarat Police have launched a month-long campaign statewide, titled ‘Operation Childhood Freedom’. The drive aims at identifying child labourers, rescuing them and facilitating their return to education.The drive, being conducted under CID Crime (Women Cell), seeks to address one of the key factors linked to school dropouts by…
Hyderabad: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of South Central Railway (SCR) rescued a total of 120 children, including 96 boys and 24 girls, during April.The children were rescued after being found separated or lost from their families. They were safely handed over to the respective Child Welfare Committees (CWCs).Furthermore, the RPF rescued five boys from…
