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| Type | Commercial Circular |
|---|---|
| Topic | ticket-checking |
Inspector shall arrange to provide temporary transit care and protection to the child and handover the child to the SM/SS/SMR/SD of the nearest station where CHD is functional
<!-- Slide number: 1 --> # Child Care & Protection Child Protection mechanism and legal framework in India Railways SOP for care and protection of children <!-- Slide number: 2 --> Child Care and Protection! Children are generally associated with innocence, freedom, joy etc. without the bindings of adult life Children are highly vulnerable to various forms of exploitation, abuse and crime and need to be protected from the cruelty of the outside world A child's protection/up brining lies with the parents? Children represent the nation’s future generation – Central/State/local government is obligated to protect and safeguard their rights, we invest in the well-being and development of the next generation Hence robust legal frameworks to safeguard children’s rights and promote their overall development is a need of the hour. Protecting children’s rights ensures that they have the necessary support and opportunities to not only reach their own potential to the maximum but also contributes for the overall progress of society India has a wide range of laws to protect children and child protection is increasingly accepted as a core component of social development The challenge is in implementing the laws due to inadequate human resource capacity on ground & equality prevention and rehabilitation services Ensuring India's children are sufficiently protected, requires more than the existing investment, focused on post-incident responses UNICEF India works with the government to provide well-established family-based alternative care options for children without parental care <!-- Slide number: 3 --> Definition of Child under enactments prevalent in India for the protection of Children and their objective The Child Labour (Protection and Regulation) Act, 1986 ‘Child’ means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age This Act aims at prohibiting the engagement of children below the age of 14 years in specified occupations and processes The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 ‘Child’ means a person who, if a male, has not completed twenty-one years of age, and if a female, has not completed eighteen years of age The objective of this Act is to prevent child marriages. Section 3 of the Act makes the child marriage voidable at the option of the contracting party who was a child at the time of the marriage The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 ‘Child’ means a person who has not completed eighteen years of age The Act makes provisions for the welfare and development needs of the juveniles <!-- Slide number: 4 --> Why are children on streets and railway platforms Children flee or are driven away from their homes for a variety of reasons including violence, abuse, destitution or disregard Many times children fantasize employment in urban areas and a more promising future than their current situation There are an estimated 11 million street children in India. Most of them in an around railway stations In the Indian metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, approximately 1,00,000 – 1,25,000 street children figure in the lists of missing, runaway, abandoned or trafficked children <!-- Slide number: 5 --> Percentage of children population. As per 2011 census, out of one third of the country’s population, 480 million are children About 16.45 cr. Children are in the age group of 0-6 yrs 37.24 Cr are in the age group of 0-14 yrs 48% of children are in the age group of 0-14 yrs Fundamental Right: Articles such as 14, 15 (3) , 21, 21 (1), 23 , 24. Directive Principles of State Policies: Articles such as 39 (e), 45, 46 and 51 Constitutional Provisions <!-- Slide number: 6 --> Vulnerabilities of Children The unfavourable environment of the child’s upbringing increases problems related to physical, mental and social development The incidences involving children are partly linked to the level of socio-economic development of an individual and country Millions of children do not know to read an
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