The Gajapati district administration has taken a strong initiative for rehabilitation of orphan children from all over district.As per Adolescent Act 2015, by the instruction of district Collector Anupam Saha, 10 centres were opened to detect the orphan children.
The Anganwadi workers were given responsibility to conduct a survey in the first place.Accordingly, 525 were children identified from the district. The child protection unit staff were also assigned to identify the parentless children.On Tuesday a meeting was held at Kashinagar NAC premises where BDO Kashinagar Simanchal Mahanty, Chairman CWC Pramod Kumar Roul, Member of CWC Alaka Sahu,CDPO Kashinagar Kanaklata Pujari, staff of child protection unit Dambarudhar Balwant were present.