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Shashidhar Kosambe, chairperson of the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), connected Friday directed territory authorities to strictly enforce each norms nether the Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act, 1994, astatine authorities and backstage scanning centres, informing that transgression cases would beryllium filed and centres unopen down if violations were detected.
Presiding implicit a reappraisal gathering with territory and taluk level officers of the Education Department connected the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act astatine the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Mr. Kosambe said Vijayanagar territory had 5 authorities and 75 backstage scanning centres, each of which indispensable comply with the mandated procedures. He added that the Commission was receiving a increasing fig of complaints connected the Child Helpline from assorted districts, with Vijayanagar reporting a larger stock of cases relating to wellness and education. The territory has 1 of the highest numbers of children suffering from malnutrition successful the State, helium noted.
During a astonishment inspection of the Sahaya and Raghav scanning centres successful Hosapete metropolis earlier successful the day, KSCPCR officials recovered CCTV cameras wrong scan rooms, a wide usurpation of the IT Act and PC&PNDT norms, which necessitate that lone the radiologist beryllium contiguous during scanning. Mr. Kosambe instructed officials to contented showcause notices to some centres and warned that immoderate further violations would invitation transgression proceedings. He directed the enactment of 3 district-level teams comprising officers from Health and Family Welfare, RCH and nodal agencies to inspect each scanning centres wrong a week and taxable a elaborate report.
Expressing interest implicit gaps successful the implementation of wellness schemes, Mr. Kosambe said 580 children successful the territory are suffering from malnutrition, but nary kid had been admitted to the Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre of the 100-bed infirmary successful the past six months. He instructed the National Child Health Programme teams and the Women and Child Development Department to jointly behaviour a survey and guarantee that eligible children are admitted without delay.
Turning to the Education Department, Mr. Kosambe described arsenic “alarming” the discrepancy of astir 4,000 students betwixt the fig of children who passed Class 9 and those who registered for the Class 10 introspection past year. “The section has nary accusation astir these children, which is simply a substance of sedate concern,” helium said.
During a sojourn to the Government Girls’ High School astatine Amaravati, helium observed that students were bringing plates from location for mid-day meals, contempt the request that plates beryllium provided astatine school. He directed officials to guarantee the proviso of caller plates by Monday and to taxable a study with GPS-tagged photographs, failing which a suo motu lawsuit would beryllium registered. He besides sought a study connected the fig of Class 9 students who had been re-enrolled successful Class 9 contempt passing the erstwhile year.
At Hosapete Rural and Badavane constabulary stations, Mr. Kosambe recovered that abstracted records of child-related cases were not being maintained. He observed that play open-house sessions astatine schools and colleges, mandated for enactment betwixt constabulary and students, were not being conducted. He instructed the constabulary to instal signage related to kid helplines and district-level officers astatine each stations and to streamline their child-protection responsibilities.
Earlier successful the day, the KSCPCR chairperson created a disturbance by making astonishment visits to the authorities hostel adjacent the APMC, the Mother and Child Hospital, the 100-bed hospital, scanning centres, the territory prison, agrarian and municipality constabulary stations, an anganwadi centre adjacent the DDPI office, and the Government Girls’ High School astatine Amaravati. He besides joined the students for a mid-day repast astatine the school.
