The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights would jointly organise a workshop on Juvenile Justice Act 2015 at IRDT Auditorium Survey Chowk on EC Road in Dehradun on Tuesday. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat would be the chief guest on the programme.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rightschairperson Stuti Kacker, ChhatisgarhCommission for Protection of Child Rights member Shatabdi Subodh Pandey, Rajasthan Commission for Protection of Child Rights member SP Singh and Maharashtra Commission for Protection of Child Rights member secretary AN Tripathi would participate in the programme.
Essay completion would be held on ‘Protection of Child Rights in Uttarakhand’ as part of the workshop. Students aged around 18 years from various institutions are expected to participate in the competition. Winners of the essay competition would be awarded at the end of the workshop.
Apart from this, police officers who performed exceptionally well in searching the missing children under Operation Smile, launched by the state police, would be awarded on the occasion, said Yogendra Khanduri, president of Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights , on Monday.