ASCPCR chairperson holds meeting with Chirang district administration

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KOKRAJHAR: The chairperson of ASCPCR (Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights) and other members visited Chirang district on Tuesday and held a meeting with Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Executive Member for Social Welfare department, Gautam Das, Chirang Deputy Commissioner Narendra Kumar Shah, Superintendent of Police Gaurav Upadhyay and departmental heads of Social Welfare, District Child Protection, Education, Food Civil Supply and Consumer Affairs in the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner's office at Kajalgaon to discuss about providing rehabilitation to 40 children along with two adults who were rescued recently from the States of Sikkim and West Bengal.

Chairing the meeting, the chairperson of ASCPCR congratulated the Chirang Superintendent of Police and Deputy Superintendent of Police and their team members for successfully carrying out the rescue operation of the vulnerable children from Sikkim and West Bengal. She also appealed to the Chirang police to put more efforts in filling chargesheet against the culprits involved in this case so that they could be put behind bars. She also apprised the house about the recently visit of ASCPCR team members to some of the houses of the victim children and shared the poor condition of the victim families.

The chairperson of ASCPCR and the EM asked the District Child Protection Officer and officials of Child Welfare Committee to closely observe the vulnerable children and to provide counseling to them soon. The chairperson also asked the EM of Social Welfare department, BTC, and Deputy Commissioner of Chirang for proper planning in order to provide rehabilitation to the rescued children who were in need of care and protection. She further asked the district administration to organize skill development programme for the children, to arrange for social welfare schemes for the victim families, to ensure regular health check-up of the children, to take steps for carrying out survey to find out the dropout children and to ensure their education facilities, and to ensure inclusion of their families under National Food Security Act.

She asked the CWC, Chirang to write a letter to ASCPCR Sikkim and West Bengal with regard to lodging a complaint against the employers of children from the respective States for violating child rights.

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