Chairman of Chhattisgarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights Shatabdi Pandey on Thursday reviewed the policies and programmes for protection of child rights on the first day of a two-day meeting organised at New Circuit House here.In the meeting, Pandey said that one needs to be sensitive while dealing and redressing the problems of children.
‘Kind and affectionate behaviour is a must while dealing with children so as to understand their problems in a better way and to find quick and suitable solution for the same,’ she said. Pandey said that teachers play an important role in shaping personality of children, Hence, teachers should behave justly with their students, as they do with their own children.
In the meeting, Director of State Educational and Research Training Council Sanjay Ojha said that important topics like moral science and child rights should be necessarily included in Social Science subject. In the first session of the meeting, various issues including student-teacher ratio in schools, school dropouts after Class V, skill development of School Management Committees, status of Correspondence courses, infrastructure development in schools, inclusion of moral science and child rights in school courses, uniform distribution system, 25 per cent free admission in private schools, fresh survey of child labours in the State, child labour evaluation, formation of special training centre in child labour schools and others were discussed in detail.
In this session, officials of School Education Department, labour Department, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan and State Educational and Research Training Council were also present. In the second session, under Juvenile Justice Act, detailed discussion on sensitising Juvenile Welfare Officers and Juvenile Police Units, protection of children from sexual abuse, district-wise data of missing children, sensitive behaviour of police personnel while dealing with teenagers who violate traffic rules, strengthening of the system to prevent child trafficking, inclusion of child rights in training of police department, protection of children from sexual exploitation in ashram hostels, infrastructural development in ashrams and hostels, food arrangements for children in these institutions, present status of sports facilities, availability of coaches etc took place.
IGP PN Tiwari, AIG Nileema Kurre, Deputy Commissioner of Tribal Caste Welfare Department Deepti Bannerjee and other officials of Police Department, Tribal Caste Welfare Department and Sports Department were also present.
Commission Members namely Simmi Shrivastava, Uma Bharti Saraf, Sharad Shrivastava, Paramanand Deshmukh, Ramesh Kumar Rajput and Commission Secretary Pratik Khare along with Childline representatives were also present in both the sessions of the meeting.