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K. Naganna Gowda, Chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said that arsenic galore arsenic 64 cases pertaining to kid marriages were reported successful Mandya during the existent year, of which 52 were prevented.
He was presiding implicit a district-level reappraisal gathering of assorted departments connected the implementation of child-related laws and schemes — including RTE 2009, POCSO 2012, the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, kid trafficking prevention, PCPNDT, and the Juvenile Justice Act-2015, connected Thursday.
Mr. Naganna Gowda said that FIRs had been registered with respect to 12 different cases. The officials were instructed to proceed with the consciousness campaigns against kid marriages and marque the territory escaped of its scourge. “Instead of intervening during a matrimony ceremony, officials should proactively counsel parents arsenic soon arsenic accusation astir a imaginable kid matrimony surfaces and assistance forestall it,” helium added.
On the contented of kid labour, Mr. Naganna Gowda said that since April this year, 20 kid labourers had been rescued and are being rehabilitated done education. Officials had been directed to proceed raids against establishments employing children, and guarantee that those rescued are enrolled successful schools truthful that they get entree to education, helium said. Even migrant children from different States should person entree to education, helium added.
Referring to a large foeticide racket that had been unearthed successful the territory sometime ago, Mr. Naganna Gowda pointed retired that strict implementation of the instrumentality had helped curb the practice.
He instructed each schools to amended students astir kid protection, guarantee wellness and imaginativeness check-ups for schoolhouse autobus drivers, instal CCTVs successful schoolhouse vehicles, and show kid helpline numbers and ailment boxes successful schools. No schoolhouse — backstage oregon authorities — should pressurise students to wage fees; immoderate instauration causing intelligence distress implicit interest outgo would look ineligible action, helium added.
Mr. Naganna Gowda said that if minors nether 18 were to beryllium found driving vehicles, enactment should beryllium taken not lone against them, but besides against their parents and the owners of the vehicles concerned. He besides called for a crackdown connected amerciable merchantability of liquor adjacent schools and slum areas, and pointed retired that it was starring adolescents into addiction.
“Officials should place and instrumentality stringent enactment against those progressive successful illicit liquor income and taxable a study wrong a week connected the fig of specified cases detected,” helium added. The constabulary were besides cautioned against hold successful registering POSCO cases. Commission subordinate Venkatesh, Additional Deputy Commissioner B.C. Shivanandamurthy, and others were present.
