New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Priyank Kanoongo will travel to Dumka to investigate the abscence of due diligence in handling the Dumka incident where a girl was set ablaze.

New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI) There is a need to bring in a new and comprehensive law to deal with child adoption that makes the process smoother as well as more accountable, a parliamentary panel that examined the sensitive subject has felt.

New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday issued draft guidelines for children in the entertainment industry to regulate their participation in films, TV, reality shows, OTT platforms, news and content creation for social media websites.

New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Dismissing the Lancet reports giving details of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Wednesday said that these findings have no correlation with ground reality in India as reflected from the data collected from the field.

New Delhi [India], January 11 (ANI): National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Monday informed that it has taken suo-moto cognizance of a video wherein Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar met school children during "Mekedatu Padayatre", indulging children into political activity.

New Delhi Dec 28 PTI The NCPCR claimed that West Bengal was still following the Womens and Childrens Institutions Licensing Act and recommended the state to instead register all child care institutions under the Juvenile Justice Act In a letter to West Bengal chief secretary H K Dwivedi NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said during an inspection of a child care institution in the state the Commission came across documents indicating that provisions of the Womens and Childrens Institutions Licensing Act 1956 were still being followed for child care institutions functioning in the state In this regard the Commission would like to inform that for all institutions housing children and for care and protection of such children the Juvenile Justice JJ Act 2015 is applicable across the country As per the provisions laid down by the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 all child care institutions shall be registered under the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 he said Therefore the applicability of the Juvenile Justice Act to child care institutions meant for care and protection of children remains an indisputable fact and that all statesUTs across the country have to follow the provisions of this Act irrespective of any other law in force he said It is requested that an action taken report in this regard may be sent to the Commission within 10 days Kanoongo said in the letter issued on Tuesday Before the JJ Act the Womens and Childrens Institutions Licensing Act 1956 provided for licensing of institutions established and maintained for the reception care protection and welfare of women or children PTI UZM SRY

New Delhi Dec 21 PTI The Delhi High Court has directed the AAP government here to provide information on delinquent juveniles who landed in adult jails in the last five years and were subsequently sent to the child care institutions to better understand the systemic flaws Issuing a slew of directions to streamline the functioning of the juvenile justice delivery system the high court ordered the Delhi government to fill the seven vacant posts of District Child Protection Officers within six weeks It asked the city government to state when and how many juveniles were admitted to Tihar Rohini and Mandoli jails and then transferred to the child care institutions as well as the offences allegedly committed by them The bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul which was dealing with various issues pertaining to the interpretation and effective implementation of some provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act sought the information To better understand the systemic flaws that lead to delinquent childrenjuveniles ending-up in adult jails to begin with we direct the Govt of NCT of Delhi to furnish to this court the number of childrenjuveniles who were transferred from adult jails to juvenile justice homeschild care institutions in the last 05 years with the details of the numbers found in Tihar Rohini and Mandoli jails respectively along with the date they were admitted and the date on which they were transferred from adult jails to juvenile justice homeschild care institutions as also the offences with which they were charged Let this information be filed before the next date of hearing by the State said the bench also comprising Justice Anup J Bhambhani in its order dated December 16 The court directed that every Juvenile Justice Board JJB shall call for an Individual Care Plan and a Rehabilitation Card of a delinquent child from the Superintendent of the concerned home and review the progress of the child once every three months and issue necessary directions in case of unsatisfactory implementation It further stated that all JJBs must ensure that the post-release plan to recommend the aftercare for such child which is required to be drawn-up two months before heshe is due to leave a child care institution is placed before the concerned JJB and the child is produced before it two months before release The JJB must vet the post-release plan and issue necessary directions for its modification monitoring and implementation the court added The court noted that several pending cases of petty offences against juveniles have been disposed of by the JJBs and Individual Care Plans have been called in many matters On October 1 the court had ordered that all cases where inquiries against minors in allegedly in petty offences before JJBs are pending and remains inconclusive for over one year stand terminated with immediate effect It had noted that as per Section 14 of the Juvenile Justice Act the inquiry in such cases shall conclude in four months from the date of first production before the board unless the period is extended for a maximum of two months The Delhi government had subsequently told the court that 898 cases of alleged petty offences against minors which were pending and remained inconclusive for over one year were closed before the JJBs The court which had earlier pulled up the Delhi government for not complying with its direction to pull-the-plug on such cases emphasised that closure was not a mere formality and the rehabilitation and care of children in conflict with law was at the core of the entire exercise The court had directed that the process of age determination of a juvenile in conflict with law shall be completed within 15 days of filing of documents and ossification test by the investigating officer of the case The matter would be heard next on January 21 PTI ADS SA

Thane Sep 17 PTI A woman was detained in Naya Nagar area of Thane district for allegedly beating up a 15-month-old child police said on Friday She was booked under Section 25 of the Juvenile Justice Act after the childs parents complained said an official The parents in order to probe the bruises on their childs body installed a mobile phone camera in their home and found it was a woman relative who was responsible the Naya Nagar police station official added PTI COR BNM BNM BNM

New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday directed Delhi State Legal Service Authority (DSLSA) to help the state government to streamline the system, to help the needy children who lost their parents during COVID-19 in getting verification of their documents.