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The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) has appealed to the authorities to instrumentality an ‘Accident and Life Insurance’ strategy for each schoolhouse and Pre-University College (PU) students.
Thippeswamy K.T., a subordinate of KSCPCR, has written a missive to the Chief Minister seeking a strategy connected the exemplary of Kerala.
In addition, Mr. Thippeswamy has besides urged the implementation of a ‘Child Protection successful Tourism Policy’ to guarantee the information of children successful the State’s tourer destinations.
“In the past fewer years, galore schools and PU colleges successful the State person witnessed deaths and superior injuries owed to children falling into blistery pots of midday meals, accidents during schoolhouse trips and sports events, electrocution, gathering and infrastructure failures and different incidents. Several complaints person besides been registered earlier the committee successful this regard. The authorities and acquisition institutions are liable for providing a harmless and child-friendly situation to schoolchildren nether the ‘Right to Education Act, 2009’. In addition, ‘Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and the National Policy for Children’ person besides declared the beingness and information of children arsenic the superior work of the government,” the missive stated.
“When accidents hap successful schools oregon during schoolhouse activities, it is not capable for children to person lone “life insurance” coverage. Life security provides compensation lone successful the lawsuit of death. But successful accidents, astir children extremity up earnestly injured, permanently disabled oregon successful a authorities requiring semipermanent treatment. In specified cases, lone mishap security tin supply attraction expenses, disablement compensation and exigency assistance. Therefore, some mishap security and beingness security are indispensable for the extortion of children. The Kerala authorities has implemented an mishap and beingness security strategy for schoolchildren, and a akin strategy needs to beryllium implemented successful the State,” helium added.
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Mr. Thippeswamy has sought that each students from classes 1 to II PUC of each government, aided and backstage schools and PU colleges successful the State should beryllium covered nether this mishap and beingness security scheme, and that each accidents that hap connected schoolhouse premises should beryllium compensated.
“Rather than looking astatine the lives and information of children with sympathy aft an accident, creating a strategy to support them from the fiscal consequences of an mishap successful beforehand is simply a existent pro-child governance. The State authorities should denote the strategy successful the State Budget for 2026-27,” Mr. Thippeswamy said.
