Meet On Child Rights By National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

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TEZU: With the objective to reach out to more children across the country, members of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) will conduct visits for taking up all cases pertaining to violation of child rights. Such benches will be organized at the division-level across India. For Arunachal Pradesh, Namsai District has been selected for the NCPCR sitting.

A team consisting of two members of NCPCR assisted by four officials of NCPCR will be setting up a bench at Namsai on June 21 for taking up grievances, complaints and representations pertaining to violation of child rights. NCPRC, set up in 2007 under the CPCR Act, 2005, is a statutory body for ensuring protection of child rights as enshrined in the Constitution of India and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Taking a proactive stance on the issue, the District Administration Lohit, with collaboration from the Office of the Deputy Director ICDS Tezu, are carrying out wide publicity and disseminating information about the sitting of the bench and are asking the general public of the district to submit any cases of the child rights violation for redressal of the case by the authority concerned. The Gaon Burahs of the respective areas under the district have also been directed to report any cases of child rights violation. The information has also been disseminated through public announcement system by the IPR Tezu.

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