Hearing cases, Chairperson of Madhya Pradesh Child Rights Protection Commission Usha Chaturvedi said that Women Empowerment Officers will held be responsible for negligence in child welfare programmes and schemes underway in the districts. As many as 25 cases came up for hearing on Saturday. Of these, directives were given to concerning persons for disposal in 15 cases.
Commission’s members Vijaya Shukla, Rita Upmanyu, RH lata, Vijaya Yadav, Reena Gujral and Vibhanshu Joshi were present during hearing.
Usha Chaturvedi said that the commission during its visits found irregularities in juvenile homes and anganwadi centres in Tikamgarh, Bhind, Sagar and Panna districts. The commission observed that Women Empowerment and District Programme Officers are responsible for implementation of government schemes and programmes, but do not appear before the commission for hearing. Women Empowerment and District Programme Officers of concerning districts appeared today before the commission after the commission wrote a letter to Woman and Child Development Department regarding this.
The commission held district programme officer, Panna responsible for irregularities in meals, DPO Tikamgarh for death of two children due to malnutrition and DPO Bhind regarding attendance of children in juvenile home.
Tikamgarh district programme officer Rajiv Singh informed that anganwadis are working to overcome children’s malnutrition by chalking out schedules. He informed that he has issued a special identity card to children of labourers who go outside the district for employment and these children will get meals and treatment in other districts on the basis of this card.
On the complaint of non-supply of meals as per menu to anganwadi children by self-help group in Panna, concerning officers assured to comply with directives about serving meals. On the complaint about asking girl inmates of Shahdol tribal pre-matric girls hostel to bring cowdung from outside and apply it on floor, the hostel superintendent assured not to do so in future. On the complaint of Satyam Malviya of Sehore district that his grandfather Prahlad Malviya was not giving money to him for studying after the death of his father, the commission directed Sehore superintendent of police to produce Prahlad Malviya before it.
The commission also gave necessary directives in the complaints regarding non-issuance of TC and receipt of fee to students by Patel Mote School, Patel Nagar, Bhopal, irregularities by principal of Government Excellence Higher Secondary School, Maihar in the purchase of fire tenders and highhandedness of principal of St Vidyasagar School, Balaghat with children.
About commission’s directive in last hearing about housing boys and girls separately in the hostel of Rajukheri School in Sagar, concerning person informed that arrangements have been made for housing boys and girls separately and they will be shifted soon.