2 months ago
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The School Education Department (Pre-University) has issued a circular instructing each PU Colleges successful the State to instrumentality recommendations of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), including the enactment of a Child Protection Committee and show of “Child Helpline no. 1098” successful the colleges.
The principals of each government/aided/unaided PU colleges person been instructed to instrumentality administrative, ineligible and intelligence enactment systems for the extortion of teen students.
In airy of caller increase in cases of teenage pregnancy, intersexual abuse, kid marriages, elopements, and online intersexual exploitation crossed the state and successful the State, the KSCPCR has issued a acceptable of elaborate guidelines. During caller visits to PU colleges, the committee said it recovered that the indispensable safeguard measures to forestall these dangers were not adequately successful place.
Child Protection Committee
The circular issued by the section stated that the Child Protection Committees should beryllium formed arsenic per the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and the Karnataka State Child Protection Policy, 2016. Any accusation of intersexual offence oregon kid matrimony should beryllium reported instantly to the Police and Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) should beryllium implemented successful this respect successful each college, the circular stated.
A Code of Conduct should beryllium implemented for each unit and students. All colleges indispensable show the articles of the United Nations Convention connected the Rights of the Child connected a imperishable show board.
Counsellor
The KSCPCR mandates that a qualified intelligence counsellor should beryllium appointed successful each PU college. A parent-student-counsellor gathering should beryllium held astatine slightest erstwhile each semester. A confidential grievance redressal mechanics should beryllium established for students to lodge complaints confidential.
All students should beryllium made to sojourn their nearest constabulary presumption erstwhile a twelvemonth nether the ‘Open House’ programme. Adolescent health, intersexual safety, online information and ineligible consciousness programmes should beryllium conducted astatine slightest erstwhile each year. A integer information and cyber information argumentation should beryllium implemented successful each colleges. Strict enactment should beryllium taken against kid pornography and online exploitation.
“In addition, intelligence and societal enactment measures specified arsenic establishing Per Support Groups/Buddy Systems successful each colleges should beryllium made truthful that students tin supply intelligence enactment to each other. Regular intelligence wellness screening should beryllium conducted to observe stress, anxiety, slump and suicidal tendencies among students,” Thippeswamy, subordinate of KSCPCR, recommended.
