School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap on Friday said that teachers should preen the future of children, like a potter who gives beautiful shape to pots from raw earth.
While inaugurating the divisional-level training-cum-workshop on “The Role of Teachers in Protection of Rights of Children”, organised by Chhattisgarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights at Jagdalpur district headquarters here, the Minister said that teachers have significant role in giving right direction to the life of children. like raw earth, childhood is the right time to build character, he added.
Kashyap while giving emphasis on the need to understand the feelings of children for their all round development, said that the Commission has been performing vital role for the protection of child rights. This workshop would be proved effective in building the future of children, he added.
Executive Chairman of the Commission Rajnish Shukla said that Chhattisgarh could be made better only by preening the future of children, with the cooperation of Education Department. The Commission has been doing several works in the direction of child rights protection.
Conducting the programme, Secretary, Chhattisgarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights , Prateek Khare informed about the rules and schemes related to child rights.
Special guest Sriniwas Rao Maddi, Child Psychologist Dr Jai Singh, Secretary, Bastar District legal Services Authority, Nidhi Sharma and specialist in different abled children management Tejmani Naidu also addressed the workshop.
Padmashri Dharmapal Saini, President of Child Welfare Committee Jagdalpur Ramesh Kumar Rajput and officers of education, woman and child development, tribal welfare departments and non-Government organisations were also present in the workshop.