Hello - I want to start a thread on Child Rights in India. This is important because we will otherwise end up with western definitions of what child rights are much in the same way as we have had to cope with western style feminism.
This thread should also cover topics of child medicine, abuse, education and nutrition.
A lot of us active in this space are very disappointed with the current state of the women and child ministry and the law ministry which have done very little to resolve these seminal issues which have inter generational impact.
I plan on posting the good, bad and ugly so this may be hard for some posters to digest.
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Starting with a more palatable topic of importance of midday meals and school lunches and breakfasts. Most of the distressed kids get barely anything at home because of poverty and timing (they have to leave rather early and when they get back, their parents are not at home, they are working). School breakfasts and lunches are a way of providing the calories needed for growth. This is an article by Akshaya Patra.
https://medium.com/@akshayapatraindia/h ... a9d7dd38da
How mid-day meal plays an important role in Government Schools
Of the midday meal programs in India, it is one of the best. However, it is still not enough. There is a huge nutrition and calorie deficit and one meal cannot fulfill it. A few years ago, a group of policy holders had proposed something similar to the plumpe nut model for Indian schools where locally made laddoos (sesame, peanuts and jaggery) could be provided as a supplemental treat to the kids at times other than lunch. The goal is nutrition density - Laddoo poshan. The goal is not to replace a meal but add nutritious 500 calories in a small amount of food so that kids can eat as a post lunch, going home snack. This can also provide local employment. It did not go anywhere.
Anyway, the point is to provide a solid midday meal + a supplemental snack to ensure 1000 calories.
This is a worthy investment and we will see the results of this in a generation itself.
China invested a great deal in school lunch programs to up national IQ and child health indices. Yes even China even though their goals might be more mercenary rather than well being.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606659/
Regular breakfast consumption is associated with increased IQ in kindergarten children
https://medium.com/@akshayapatraindia/h ... a9d7dd38da
How mid-day meal plays an important role in Government Schools
The article is a bit of a fluff piece as it does not provide harder details of the mess in India and it should not since AK's main goal is to reach as many kids as possible.The government encourages the participation of NGOs by providing ample support with the intention to multiply the mid-day meal benefits i.e.:
· avoid classroom hunger
· increase school enrollment
· increase school attendance
· improve socialisation among castes
· address malnutrition
· empower women through employment
Of the midday meal programs in India, it is one of the best. However, it is still not enough. There is a huge nutrition and calorie deficit and one meal cannot fulfill it. A few years ago, a group of policy holders had proposed something similar to the plumpe nut model for Indian schools where locally made laddoos (sesame, peanuts and jaggery) could be provided as a supplemental treat to the kids at times other than lunch. The goal is nutrition density - Laddoo poshan. The goal is not to replace a meal but add nutritious 500 calories in a small amount of food so that kids can eat as a post lunch, going home snack. This can also provide local employment. It did not go anywhere.
Anyway, the point is to provide a solid midday meal + a supplemental snack to ensure 1000 calories.
This is a worthy investment and we will see the results of this in a generation itself.
China invested a great deal in school lunch programs to up national IQ and child health indices. Yes even China even though their goals might be more mercenary rather than well being.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606659/
Regular breakfast consumption is associated with increased IQ in kindergarten children
This cross-sectional study consisted of a sample of 1,269 children (697 boys and 572 girls) aged 6 from the Chinese city of Jintan. Cognition was assessed with the Chinese version of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – Revised. Breakfast habits were assessed through parental questionnaire. Analyses of variance and linear regression models were used to analyze the association between breakfast habits and IQ. Socioeconomic and parental psychosocial variables related to intelligence were controlled for.
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Even though I detest Scroll, this write up is accurate. There were pockets where midday meal provisions were made, however the WCD, Health or whatever ministry is responsible for this, did not focus on this issue. In other countries where there were lockdowns, provisions were make to supply packed meals specifically for kids during the lockdown.
The fallout of India’s lockdown on child malnutrition will be felt long after the Covid-19 crisis
With schools and anganwadis shut, children do not have access to Mid Day meals.
https://scroll.in/article/964033/the-fa ... -19-crisis
The fallout of India’s lockdown on child malnutrition will be felt long after the Covid-19 crisis
With schools and anganwadis shut, children do not have access to Mid Day meals.
https://scroll.in/article/964033/the-fa ... -19-crisis
A fistful of rice with sugar or salt is a standard meal for 10-year-old Asha Yadav these days. On better days, her mother adds some potatoes or dal to her plate. A resident of Eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district – among the most backward and poorest in the state’s agricultural belt – Asha is among the 95.1 million children whom the lockdown has deprived of midday meals at school.
On school days, Asha would get at least one wholesome meal – rice, vegetables, milk and fruit – under the Indian government’s Midday Meal Scheme. Since March 24, school has been shut due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and with it, midday meals.
India had witnessed 1.04 million under-five deaths in 2017. Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of under-five deaths – 312,800, including 165,800 neonatal deaths – followed by Bihar which had 141,500, including 75,300 neonatal deaths.
Child malnutrition, along with maternal malnutrition, is a major determinant for these deaths, said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, a public-private research initiative, “It should be accorded the highest priority for corrective action.”
Child growth failure is measured as per three parameters – stunting or low height for age, wasting or low weight for height, and underweight or low weight for age. In India in 2017, 39% of children under five were stunted, 16% were wasted and 33% were underweight, with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh being home to the highest number of stunted children, according to the first-ever estimates mapping trends from 2000 to 2017 published in The Lancet.
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At least from reports that i had come across from GJ, I can say that many mandir trusts had recognized this and were working on providing meals but govt had shut down their efforts to enforce lockdowns. Not sure what govt officials would have been involved in the command chain but if there's justice, all of them should have been chargesheeted by now. Mandirs were willing to take care of all logistics as long as given permission passes for volunteers and delivery of ration by govt in exchange of donation money.
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^^^
Perhaps it is the bureaucrats or perhaps its the politicians but either way its a failure and should not have happened/ should not happen. For some strange reason such a big issue is not part of our collective mindshare.
We are pulling up the politicians for Defense and Health for everything that is transpiring and here we have a WCD ministry with two ministers no less. The states are worse. The finance minister was front and center day and night, the health minister too. Where does child hunger and well being fall? It's ridiculous to blame PMO, Defense and Health for once in a decade anomalous events while forgetting areas where we could have created fixes.
Imagine millions of kids getting meals one day and switching off the next. A lapse of 2-3 days is understandable but a complete blackout cannot be acceptable. In India, child hunger drives fatal outcomes. It's a huge deal. A 4 month gap at a young age can drive lifelong impairment. This does not include other consequences like child sale and trafficking. In Chitrakoot young girls were selling themselves to contractors for access to food.
Also, this group talks about the EJ threat. A huge window like this is ideal for EJ's to prey. Child hunger is big deal in India. All the food and grain that was distributed does not compensate for it because it assumes that food will reach the child. Many a time, parents are mobile and saving everything they have because they don't know what's coming next. Just as we did not shut our hospitals, we should have kept the midday meal kitchens in schools and elsewhere running and ensured distribution.
Everything else around hunger amelioration would be secondary to this.
Just an addition but as a product of a classic EJ school, there was always a section of kids who were first generation converts. Their parents got jobs, food and schooling for their kids. However, I believe that things have gradually changed in India and now we can if we want, feed our most destitute children. This big break due to the lockdown has undone several years of effort.
Perhaps it is the bureaucrats or perhaps its the politicians but either way its a failure and should not have happened/ should not happen. For some strange reason such a big issue is not part of our collective mindshare.
We are pulling up the politicians for Defense and Health for everything that is transpiring and here we have a WCD ministry with two ministers no less. The states are worse. The finance minister was front and center day and night, the health minister too. Where does child hunger and well being fall? It's ridiculous to blame PMO, Defense and Health for once in a decade anomalous events while forgetting areas where we could have created fixes.
Imagine millions of kids getting meals one day and switching off the next. A lapse of 2-3 days is understandable but a complete blackout cannot be acceptable. In India, child hunger drives fatal outcomes. It's a huge deal. A 4 month gap at a young age can drive lifelong impairment. This does not include other consequences like child sale and trafficking. In Chitrakoot young girls were selling themselves to contractors for access to food.
Also, this group talks about the EJ threat. A huge window like this is ideal for EJ's to prey. Child hunger is big deal in India. All the food and grain that was distributed does not compensate for it because it assumes that food will reach the child. Many a time, parents are mobile and saving everything they have because they don't know what's coming next. Just as we did not shut our hospitals, we should have kept the midday meal kitchens in schools and elsewhere running and ensured distribution.
Everything else around hunger amelioration would be secondary to this.
Just an addition but as a product of a classic EJ school, there was always a section of kids who were first generation converts. Their parents got jobs, food and schooling for their kids. However, I believe that things have gradually changed in India and now we can if we want, feed our most destitute children. This big break due to the lockdown has undone several years of effort.
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This is a good paper on some of the problems faced with India's midday meal program delivery (Corruption and contamination of food is not mentioned - but it is a big issue with local henchmen and even teacher siphoning away funds and supplies)..The Mid-day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide.[1] The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour.[2] Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world.[3]
https://www.journalijdr.com/sites/defau ... f/9516.pdf
Teachers pointed out a number of problems such as problem of management of the mid day meal, wastage of food by the students, insufficient and delayed receipt of funds, increased workload of teachers, procuring dry ration from the retail shops, lack of infrastructure for storage, cooking and serving food, lack of safety provisions, unhygienic surroundings, etc. being faced by them in implementation of Mid Day Meal Scheme.
- In December 2005, Delhi police seized eight trucks laden with 2,760 sacks of rice meant for primary school children. The rice was being transported from Food Corporation of India godowns Bulandshahr district to North Delhi. The police stopped the trucks and investigators later discovered that the rice was being stolen by an NGO.[40]
- In November 2006, the residents of Pembong village (30 km from Darjeeling) accused a group of teachers of embezzling midday meals. In a written complaint, the residents claimed that students at the primary school had not received their midday meal for the past year and a half.[41]
- In December 2006, The Times of India reported that school staff were inflating attendance in order to obtain food grains.[42]
- Twenty-three children died in Dharma Sati village in Saran District on 16 July 2013 after eating pesticide-contaminated mid day meals.[25] On 31 July 2013, 55 students at a government middle school fell ill at Kalyuga village in Jamui district after their midday meal provided by an NGO. On the same day, 95 students at Chamandi primary school in Arwal district were ill after their meal.[43]
The food in the local school programs is wasted by students because it tastes really bad. There are no checks and balances on the food prepped in these local schools. Often it is not cleaned and has pesticide residue. There have been times when lizards have been found in the food. Children would rather go hungry than eat this. This is where a program like Akshaya Patra gets to be so successful. It takes meal prep out of the picture. It also supplements the funds provided by the government to provide more nutrition rich meals with variety (and not plain rice with some salt)
One hopes that Yogi Adityanath lets Akshaya Patra take over the midday meal delivery program in UP. There is no other way to ensure success. One can hope for Bihar but that is a bit far fetched. The delivery programs are broken in these two states that it is better to outsource to a well intended, not for profit third party till the state builds its own capabilities. This cannot be relatives of politicians. Akshaya Patras reach presently is ~1% of the kids. 1.8MM of the 120MM. Again, hopefully this will ramp up quickly in UP.
This write up talks about PM's mindset which is right on target. Now we have to ensure execution. This is not about funds. Merely disbursing funds does not help and we don't have funds to waste. The key is execution and monitoring. Also a partnership as with Akshaya Patra helps.
https://www.thequint.com/news/hot-news/ ... ionth-meal
He is correct but the previous governments can no longer be used as a baseline. Anything is better than 0. I think this portfolio needs a dedicated minister not one whose attention is splitIn an attack on previous governments for what he said was slow work in the field of child nourishment, vaccination and cleanliness, Modi underlined that not much success was gained in past.
He also said that countries with fewer facilities were ahead of India in these fields.
"To end this situation, we since 2014 have been working with new strategies in the field of vaccination, cleanliness and child nourishment and decided to conduct these on a mission mode."
Speaking about Mission Indradhanush, he said over 3 crore 40 lakh children and 90 lakh mothers had been vaccinated since the launch of the scheme.
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There should be a thread about listing of places donate by each category that BRF posters believe in. For me it's always a struggle to find honest charity that can deliver. For this case, other than Akshaya Patra I couldn't find others so I started calling mandir trusts to see why they are twiddling their thumbs and then I came to know that it's the gov't's interference had them shut off from helping.
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Moving on to another topic pertaining to child rights and issues in India. The topic of missing kids in India. Unfortunately, this is also not an area of focus for WCD.
The scandal of the missing children abducted from India’s railway stations
Scores of minors in Kolkata call Sealdah station home. The fate of hundreds a year is to be abducted and sold into slavery or the sex trade
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... rafficking
Sold into slavery: India's lost generation of missing children
The scandal of the missing children abducted from India’s railway stations
Scores of minors in Kolkata call Sealdah station home. The fate of hundreds a year is to be abducted and sold into slavery or the sex trade
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... rafficking
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... AkBKP.htmlWith 60,000 children going missing in India every year, social media has propelled child lifting fear
This startling data could be considered nemesis of the mob lynching incidents over suspicion of the child lifting gangs in the Hindi heartland, which has high incidence of children going missing for a population of one lakh than other parts of India.
Sold into slavery: India's lost generation of missing children
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indi ... SKBN17F12ARishi Kant from Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based anti-trafficking charity, says up to 70 percent of the missing children found are victims of trafficking and slavery.
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Incidents like this suggest that there's hardly any fear of law.
Uttar Pradesh: 13-year-old gang-raped and killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, eyes gouged, tongue cut
https://www.opindia.com/2020/08/lakhimp ... r-pradesh/
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darshan wrote:Incidents like this suggest that there's hardly any fear of law.
Uttar Pradesh: 13-year-old gang-raped and killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, eyes gouged, tongue cut
https://www.opindia.com/2020/08/lakhimp ... r-pradesh/
Children are invisible victims. For some reason child related crimes which should shake the consciousness of the nation, disappear into obscurity. This is especially the case with crimes on boy child. I know it is paradoxical but sex crimes on boys are a complete lacuna which is why it happens with impunity. This is also because of the complete takeover of these ministries by gender bender warriors as a result of which real issues get subsumed under bs identity politics and agenda driven priorities. Yes everything is a priority but if I have a 100 bucks I need to put in more on say malnutrition, than sanitary napkin dispensing machines.
It is important to penalize but more important for child rights and issues to get the mindshare of the nation. Issues like child nutrition and abuse are just not at the top of the the publics mindshare. It should be at the top, well over adult issues.
PS: One is not disregarding the importance of sanitary napkins for girls. It is a huge factor in school drop outs. But first we need to get these kids productively to their teens. It's like building a college in an area which does not have a primary school. I just don't see clarity of thought and direction in this ministry. Funds are a zero sum game.
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Bihar: Missing Minor Girl Rescued After A Month, Curiously On The Same Day The Police Got An Ultimatum From Child Commission
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/bihar- ... commission
A minor girl from Bihar who was allegedly kidnapped by a neighbour and his accomplices on 26 July, has been rescued and has returned to her native village. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had intervened in the case after this correspondent approached the body.
The girl, a Hindu by religion, is a native of Bhikan Chak village that falls under Bachhwara police station in Bihar’s Begusarai district.
This correspondent was the first to report the case when the girl’s father gave a complaint to the police on 30 July. The complaint said that the abductors - all Muslims - carried pistols and told him that ‘if it were Pakistan, they would have taken the girl from her house itself’.
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/bihar- ... commission
A minor girl from Bihar who was allegedly kidnapped by a neighbour and his accomplices on 26 July, has been rescued and has returned to her native village. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had intervened in the case after this correspondent approached the body.
The girl, a Hindu by religion, is a native of Bhikan Chak village that falls under Bachhwara police station in Bihar’s Begusarai district.
This correspondent was the first to report the case when the girl’s father gave a complaint to the police on 30 July. The complaint said that the abductors - all Muslims - carried pistols and told him that ‘if it were Pakistan, they would have taken the girl from her house itself’.
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Just an overview of Childline India. This is one of the best and most effective NGO's out there, let alone in the area of Child Rights. It has transformed outreach for abused children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childline_India
There is much more that can be done to communicate things to look for to make that call.
Some powerful videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDOPWC1EOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7C0VnWdZM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childline_India
The biggest problem in India is that people just walk away. This is not our problem is the general attitude. It does not take much to make a call to Childline and then wait till someone comes for the rescue. I have seen big burly men hit their tiny 4 year old children. They abuse is real and sometimes one has to intervene. And Childline has always responded.CHILDLINE 1098 is a service of Ministry of Women and Child Development. Childline India foundation is a non-government organisation (NGO) in India that operates a telephone helpline called Childline, for children in distress. It was India's first 24-hour, toll free, phone outreach service for children .[1] Childline 1098 service is available all over India. It is available in 543+ districts and 117+ railway stations have Child Help Desks.
It also helps children who are in need of care and protection. Childline number is - 1098. Childline receives an average a million calls a month and CHILDLINE rescues about 300,00 children annually.
Childline was first established as an experimental project in June 1996, by Jeroo Billimoria, a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai at the department of Family and Child Welfare
There is much more that can be done to communicate things to look for to make that call.
Some powerful videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDOPWC1EOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7C0VnWdZM
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suryag wrote:I presume we dont have weekend meals for kids in any state yet. What would it take for Modi Govt to ensure weekend meals at schools for needy kids ? or does this come under state governments
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Milk To Soon Become Integral Part Of Mid-Day Meal Scheme Under Push To Build Malnutrition-Free India
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/milk-to-s ... free-india
Milk will soon be an integral part of the midday meal scheme to ensure proper nutrition to all students in government schools across the country, which is in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aim to make a malnutrition-free India.
The Women and Child Development (WCD) and Education Ministries are working in a coordinated way to meet the Prime Minister’s vision of providing nutritious meals to the students in government schools.
All the officials linked to the departments concerned dealing with the policies have been directed by both the ministries on the 3rd ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’ to expedite changes in midday meal by including milk soon after the schools resume functioning with attendance by children.
The Prime Minister had in 2018 launched ‘Poshan Abhiyaan’– a robust scheme which has been playing an important role in eliminating malnutrition from the country.
On this ‘Poshan Maah 2020’, Modi’s government planned to focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in a statement.
In this regard, an official, requesting anonymity, told IANS that the Education Ministry may come up with a revised menu for midday meals scheme, that will include milk as an integral component.
All the state government’s have been told to implement the new midday meal policy which includes milk.
Earlier, the then HRD Ministry had revised its midday meal policy in 2016.
In order to give better quality food to children in schools where midday meals are provided, the HRD has revised its norms, that include milk as a necessary supplement.
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https://swarajyamag.com/insta/milk-to-s ... free-india
Milk will soon be an integral part of the midday meal scheme to ensure proper nutrition to all students in government schools across the country, which is in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aim to make a malnutrition-free India.
The Women and Child Development (WCD) and Education Ministries are working in a coordinated way to meet the Prime Minister’s vision of providing nutritious meals to the students in government schools.
All the officials linked to the departments concerned dealing with the policies have been directed by both the ministries on the 3rd ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’ to expedite changes in midday meal by including milk soon after the schools resume functioning with attendance by children.
The Prime Minister had in 2018 launched ‘Poshan Abhiyaan’– a robust scheme which has been playing an important role in eliminating malnutrition from the country.
On this ‘Poshan Maah 2020’, Modi’s government planned to focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in a statement.
In this regard, an official, requesting anonymity, told IANS that the Education Ministry may come up with a revised menu for midday meals scheme, that will include milk as an integral component.
All the state government’s have been told to implement the new midday meal policy which includes milk.
Earlier, the then HRD Ministry had revised its midday meal policy in 2016.
In order to give better quality food to children in schools where midday meals are provided, the HRD has revised its norms, that include milk as a necessary supplement.
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On the 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah, Union Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah has appealed all citizens to take a pledge and contribute towards a malnutrition-free India
“Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers a priority of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi”
“Launched by PM Modi in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country”
“This month, PM Narendra Modi’s Govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition”
Posted On: 07 SEP 2020 2:23PM by PIB Delhi
On the 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah, Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah has appealed to all citizens to take a pledge and contribute towards a malnutrition-free India. In a series of tweets, Shri Amit Shah said, “Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers has always been the priority of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi ji”.
“Launched by PM Modi in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country,” said the Union Home Minister.
Shri Amit Shah said, “This POSHAN Maah 2020, PM Narendra Modi’s Govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition.”
“To further strengthen this scheme, let us all take a pledge & contribute towards a malnutrition-free India”, said the Union Home Minister.
Third Rashtriya Poshan Maah is being celebrated in the month of September 2020. The objective of the Poshan Maah is to encourage Jan Bhagidaari for addressing malnutrition amongst young children and women and to ensure health & nutrition for everyone.
Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers has always been the priority of PM @NarendraModi.
Launched in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country. #POSHANMaah2020
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 7, 2020
This #POSHANMaah2020, PM @NarendraModi govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition.
To further strengthen this scheme, let us all take a pledge & contribute towards a malnutrition-free India.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 7, 2020
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On the 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah, Union Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah has appealed all citizens to take a pledge and contribute towards a malnutrition-free India
“Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers a priority of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi”
“Launched by PM Modi in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country”
“This month, PM Narendra Modi’s Govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition”
Posted On: 07 SEP 2020 2:23PM by PIB Delhi
On the 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah, Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah has appealed to all citizens to take a pledge and contribute towards a malnutrition-free India. In a series of tweets, Shri Amit Shah said, “Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers has always been the priority of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi ji”.
“Launched by PM Modi in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country,” said the Union Home Minister.
Shri Amit Shah said, “This POSHAN Maah 2020, PM Narendra Modi’s Govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition.”
“To further strengthen this scheme, let us all take a pledge & contribute towards a malnutrition-free India”, said the Union Home Minister.
Third Rashtriya Poshan Maah is being celebrated in the month of September 2020. The objective of the Poshan Maah is to encourage Jan Bhagidaari for addressing malnutrition amongst young children and women and to ensure health & nutrition for everyone.
Adequate nutrition for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers has always been the priority of PM @NarendraModi.
Launched in 2018, Poshan Abhiyaan is a robust scheme which has been playing an unprecedented role in eliminating malnutrition from the country. #POSHANMaah2020
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 7, 2020
This #POSHANMaah2020, PM @NarendraModi govt will focus on an intensive campaign across the country for the holistic nourishment of children with severe acute malnutrition.
To further strengthen this scheme, let us all take a pledge & contribute towards a malnutrition-free India.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 7, 2020
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Malnutrition should be brought down by one per cent in six months, UP Chief Minister tells officials
https://english.lokmat.com/national/mal ... officials/
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He gave a clarion call to eradicate the of malnutrition among the children and take special care of the health of mothers.
An official release said the Chief Minister sought to spread this message while reviewing the preparations of 'National Nutrition Month-2020' commencing on September 7.
He spoke to parents of some of the most malnutritioned children through video conferencing.
The Chief Minister said that the "nutrition drive" is an important event inspired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi which is aimed at looking after the well being of children and mothers.
"He said that the target is fixed to bring down malnutrition by one per cent in the next six months. He asked to identify SAM (severe acute malnutrition) children. A one day-drive should be conducted to take height and weight of all the children to fix the baseline to gauge future progress. In addition to this, the health department will do a check-up of SAM/MAM children," the release said.
The Chief Minister also announced the award to the best performing districts.
He asked officials to monitor the targets during 3-6 month and make an assessment by March 2021. He further directed the DMs to convene a meeting of the District Nutrition Committee to facilitate the convergence of concerned departments.
The Chief Minister said he will review the progress of this programme in two months and before that the Chief Secretary will review it in a month. It will be preceded by the weekly review at the district level and later by the commissioners.
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https://english.lokmat.com/national/mal ... officials/
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He gave a clarion call to eradicate the of malnutrition among the children and take special care of the health of mothers.
An official release said the Chief Minister sought to spread this message while reviewing the preparations of 'National Nutrition Month-2020' commencing on September 7.
He spoke to parents of some of the most malnutritioned children through video conferencing.
The Chief Minister said that the "nutrition drive" is an important event inspired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi which is aimed at looking after the well being of children and mothers.
"He said that the target is fixed to bring down malnutrition by one per cent in the next six months. He asked to identify SAM (severe acute malnutrition) children. A one day-drive should be conducted to take height and weight of all the children to fix the baseline to gauge future progress. In addition to this, the health department will do a check-up of SAM/MAM children," the release said.
The Chief Minister also announced the award to the best performing districts.
He asked officials to monitor the targets during 3-6 month and make an assessment by March 2021. He further directed the DMs to convene a meeting of the District Nutrition Committee to facilitate the convergence of concerned departments.
The Chief Minister said he will review the progress of this programme in two months and before that the Chief Secretary will review it in a month. It will be preceded by the weekly review at the district level and later by the commissioners.
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Mumbai: 12th pass Alfaz Jamani arrested for stalking, blackmailing and child ***** using Instagram photos of minor girls
https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/mumbai- ... rnography/
Cyber Unit of Mumbai police has arrested 20-year-old Alfaz Jamani from Gujarat for stalking, blackmailing, hacking and child ***** using images of minor girls between 9 to 15 years of age. As per the reports, police have found over 700 nude photos of minor girls on his mobile phone. He managed to get these photographs from girls after hacking in their Instagram accounts.
Dr Rashmi Karandikar, DCP (Cyber), said that they received a complaint from some girls’ parents on 6th September that someone has uploaded nude pictures of their children on Instagram. “All the girls are aged 9 to 15,” she added. The cyber police initiated the investigation and traced the accused’s location in Mahua village of Bhavnagar district, Gujarat.
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https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/mumbai- ... rnography/
Cyber Unit of Mumbai police has arrested 20-year-old Alfaz Jamani from Gujarat for stalking, blackmailing, hacking and child ***** using images of minor girls between 9 to 15 years of age. As per the reports, police have found over 700 nude photos of minor girls on his mobile phone. He managed to get these photographs from girls after hacking in their Instagram accounts.
Dr Rashmi Karandikar, DCP (Cyber), said that they received a complaint from some girls’ parents on 6th September that someone has uploaded nude pictures of their children on Instagram. “All the girls are aged 9 to 15,” she added. The cyber police initiated the investigation and traced the accused’s location in Mahua village of Bhavnagar district, Gujarat.
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^^^ 9-15 years
Hi time Indians wake up to the severe child trafficking and abuse in their midst. This is an organized crime issue beyond the one-offs stated above.
On that note, did you see the news about the Panipat fellow who was attacked by the family of the minor boy he abused? Now they are using the same argument with him as they used with cattle thieves to paint him as a sympathetic character. So our cattle and kids are both game!
Hi time Indians wake up to the severe child trafficking and abuse in their midst. This is an organized crime issue beyond the one-offs stated above.
On that note, did you see the news about the Panipat fellow who was attacked by the family of the minor boy he abused? Now they are using the same argument with him as they used with cattle thieves to paint him as a sympathetic character. So our cattle and kids are both game!
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A little bit about the historic roots of the trafficking epidemic in India (this really deserves a paper but no one will write it.).Jarita wrote:^^^ 9-15 years
Hi time Indians wake up to the severe child trafficking and abuse in their midst. This is an organized crime issue beyond the one-offs stated above.
On that note, did you see the news about the Panipat fellow who was attacked by the family of the minor boy he abused? Now they are using the same argument with him as they used with cattle thieves to paint him as a sympathetic character. So our cattle and kids are both game!
A lot of the mega red light areas of India have their origins in British and colonial rule India where these were developed to supply to troops and/or as an outcome of colonial market places. Later they became a cesspool of supply and demand with young girls pouring in from everywhereI(the poverty and famines of British India became a huge catalyst). Additionally, the EIC itself funded specific supply lines for their soldiers.
For instance Asia's largest red light area Sonagachi was named after a central mosque, however the confluence of Armenian, Portugese and British marketplaces facilitated the creation of this infamous zone.
However, what is more interesting is that the big supply lines for child trafficking developed during the Mughal period and a little prior (Sultanate) to assuage the great demand for slaves, and these supply lines still persist. They have morphed with technology but they still exist. The same supply lines perversely nourish the brick kilns, the brothels and the overseas demand. A significant portion of missing and trafficked kids fall into these and as I mentioned earlier, this is organized crime with a well oiled system involving various aspects of the system.
One should know that the average survival of such kids is estimated to be <7 years after falling into the trafficking trap. The hard labor, STDs, severe abuse all take their toll.
If we have an external enemy to handle, there can be no greater internal enemy than this.
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Last years news. A large number of kids were trafficked during the lockdown as well. It's hard to be objective with this kind of atrocity. We need a serious WCD minister.
With 60,000 children going missing in India every year, social media has propelled child lifting fear
This startling data could be considered nemesis of the mob lynching incidents over suspicion of the child lifting gangs in the Hindi heartland, which has high incidence of children going missing for a population of one lakh than other parts of India.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... AkBKP.html
https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/st ... 2019-06-17
Child abductions, which accounted for a small share of abductions earlier, now account for the bulk of all abductions in the country
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/Bv4Tb ... India.html
With 60,000 children going missing in India every year, social media has propelled child lifting fear
This startling data could be considered nemesis of the mob lynching incidents over suspicion of the child lifting gangs in the Hindi heartland, which has high incidence of children going missing for a population of one lakh than other parts of India.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... AkBKP.html
https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/st ... 2019-06-17
Child abductions, which accounted for a small share of abductions earlier, now account for the bulk of all abductions in the country
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/Bv4Tb ... India.html
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Good thread.
Just one note. Childline is notorious - https://twitter.com/search?q=childline% ... yped_query
As is the practice of running unauthorised orfanajes https://twitter.com/search?q=orfanajes% ... yped_query
Just one note. Childline is notorious - https://twitter.com/search?q=childline% ... yped_query
As is the practice of running unauthorised orfanajes https://twitter.com/search?q=orfanajes% ... yped_query
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^^^ your tweet says that kids became aware of abuse after a Childline awareness program. That’s a good thing, isn’t it.
Yes am aware of the orphanage racket in India. It’s a sinister mess. Please do post more.
We have some of the largest number of orphans in the world and they land up all over the place.
In some places the police would hand over abandoned kids to random orphanages where their fate would be unknown. Several street kids have escaped from shelter homes and say they prefer living on the streets because the abuse is so severe in shelter homes. I recall a case of police in Kolkata catching railroad kids and handing them to two British men who were running a boys home. Those two men were suspected pedophiles.
As I say, this kind of news should be front page news like the Nirbhaya case but is not.
I know missionaries of charity is a mixed bag but there are several decent and whole and happy humans that come out of it. Of course all are converts.
So then what is the solution? Government shelter homes are notorious too. Keep in mind the latest rackets in Muzaffarnagar and UP homes.
Yes am aware of the orphanage racket in India. It’s a sinister mess. Please do post more.
We have some of the largest number of orphans in the world and they land up all over the place.
In some places the police would hand over abandoned kids to random orphanages where their fate would be unknown. Several street kids have escaped from shelter homes and say they prefer living on the streets because the abuse is so severe in shelter homes. I recall a case of police in Kolkata catching railroad kids and handing them to two British men who were running a boys home. Those two men were suspected pedophiles.
As I say, this kind of news should be front page news like the Nirbhaya case but is not.
I know missionaries of charity is a mixed bag but there are several decent and whole and happy humans that come out of it. Of course all are converts.
So then what is the solution? Government shelter homes are notorious too. Keep in mind the latest rackets in Muzaffarnagar and UP homes.
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The first couple of days of the lockdown, the WCD ministry received a lot of alerts from stakeholders and child NGO's about the sudden shut down of meal programs for children. I had posted about this early in the thread. Instead of taking cognizance the bureaucrats of this ministry and the ministers, just twiddled their thumbs and focused on other stuff instead. Another patchwork solution was giving some groups rations, which is useless because families are on the move and saving mode. As I mentioned in other countries, special arrangements were made to provide meals to kids twice a day. NOT rations, not handouts which could be sold by parents. For that matter, school sites could be left open for food preparation so that kids could get a meal. Another option was door to door meals for each school (not ration - I saw this ration racket in Kerala). A less desirable option would be food supplements - peanut bar.
Again - twiddling of thumbs.
Now there are damning reports coming out about the long term impact of this malnutrition and deprivation on children. The damage is so widespread beyond malnutrition. So many of the people in this ministry should be fired. Don't go by the media reporting this matter.
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Nutritional Status Of India’s Children? An On-Ground Report From Non-Profit Organisation CRY
https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/how-has-co ... cry-49997/
Again - twiddling of thumbs.
Now there are damning reports coming out about the long term impact of this malnutrition and deprivation on children. The damage is so widespread beyond malnutrition. So many of the people in this ministry should be fired. Don't go by the media reporting this matter.
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Nutritional Status Of India’s Children? An On-Ground Report From Non-Profit Organisation CRY
https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/how-has-co ... cry-49997/
When Abhilash was born in a Primary Health Centre of Harhua block, he was completely normal. His condition started deteriorating after the pandemic hit the country. His father, sole bread-winner of the house, used to work as a labourer at construction site. However, he lost his work and we had no money or food to survive after the nationwide lockdown was announced.
He is so weak that one can barely hear his voice and his vision is so weak that he is unable to see in the dark. Unlike, normal children of his age, he is unable to stand and mostly spreads his time lying in the bed. Mana said,
The distribution of ‘Poshan Aahar’ was also halted in the village due to the lockdown and the ration which is being provided by government is not sufficient for survival of the entire family for a month, a spokesperson from CRY informed NDTV.
This new minister of WCD is completely self absorbed and heartless.For 28-year-old Sanju Rawat, protecting his family, especially his malnourished children, in this ongoing pandemic has become a major challenge.
A resident of Teetana ki Dhani village in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, Sanju has two children – a daughter and a son. However, lack of food and no work during pandemic has made both these children, 4-year-old Prem and 2-year-old Preeta vulnerable to malnutrition.
Both the children are severely underweight, Prem weighs 9.9 kg, while Preeta weighs 7 kg which is considerably low for their age
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Please watch a couple of these links on where the child trafficking trade goes. This is based on actual data. The organ trafficking will chill you.
If you talk to or work with some of the trafficking rescue organizations, they will address this breakdown. I have no idea why this is not a bigger issue in India.
Some of these kids and adolescents are sold by parents due to abject poverty. These are not the conspiracy links. As I mentioned, the truth is so hard that we need not garnish it with theories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hny74sX5H3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIouS3m_jFk
If you talk to or work with some of the trafficking rescue organizations, they will address this breakdown. I have no idea why this is not a bigger issue in India.
Some of these kids and adolescents are sold by parents due to abject poverty. These are not the conspiracy links. As I mentioned, the truth is so hard that we need not garnish it with theories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hny74sX5H3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIouS3m_jFk
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Are there any honest NGOs and/or groups that work on this issues?Jarita wrote:.
Diwali is coming and there's going to be lot of donation activities. It would be a good idea to compile a list.
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Some non-dharmic ones which do real search and rescue work.
https://www.childlineindia.org/ - the best of the lot
https://www.prajwalaindia.com/
https://shaktivahini.org/
Dharmic NGOs that help through feeding, education and support
Akshaya Patra
http://patialaschool.org/
https://www.samerth.org/
Anything that rescues, feeds and supports kids is helpful. I would be careful with shelter homes, unless they are credible and audited. India does need to fast track legitimate adoptions. Instead of having surrogate babies, I wish more Bollywood non-stars would set and example and adopt.
https://www.childlineindia.org/ - the best of the lot
https://www.prajwalaindia.com/
https://shaktivahini.org/
Dharmic NGOs that help through feeding, education and support
Akshaya Patra
http://patialaschool.org/
https://www.samerth.org/
Anything that rescues, feeds and supports kids is helpful. I would be careful with shelter homes, unless they are credible and audited. India does need to fast track legitimate adoptions. Instead of having surrogate babies, I wish more Bollywood non-stars would set and example and adopt.
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Rajasthan Records Highest Minor Sex Abuse Complaints During Pandemic: Child Commission Chief
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/rajasthan ... sion-chief
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He further apprised that 87 complaints were received from Rajasthan, the highest so far, followed by 80 in Tamil Nadu and 72 in Telangana. “The complaints from these states are more or less the same,” Kanoongo added.
The chairperson of the apex child rights’ body, however, rued the inadequate reporting mechanism of such cases in two states. “In West Bengal, a 16-year-old was kidnapped but the police did not add the charges of POCSO and trafficking in the FIR. In West Bengal and Bihar, the child welfare police officers are not trained and there is a lack of sensitisation.”
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These kids are sitting ducks for exploitation. An audit is desperately needed. Look at this network of NGO's who have grabbed these kids and are refusing to send them back to their families. The other scam is the proposed foster family nonsense being proposed.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/child ... 45133.html
https://www.news18.com/news/india/child ... 45133.html
More than 700 child rights outfits and activists have written a strong open letter criticising a recent direction issued by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the apex child rights body in India, in which it has asked eight states that account for over 70% of children in care homes to ensure their return to their families. Removing children from institutional care, the child rights activists have said in their letter," and bypassing due process will inevitably push many children into situations of greater risk of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation."
In a letter written to officials in eight states – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Mizoram, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Meghalaya – on September 24, NCPCR directed the district magistrates of these states to ensure that the children living in care homes be returned to their families, preferably within a 100-day period. These eight states account for nearly 1.84 lakh (or nearly 72%) of the 2.56 lakh children that are put in child care homes across the country.
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With regards to the NCPCR directive on shelter homes, what really concerns one is the hammer approach being adopted. Child issues are situational and specific and not a one size fits all. It’s good that we are looking at the situations that led to kids being in shelter homes but while family is preferred, it is not always the best option. 90 percent of reported CSA happens with people in the family or people kids know (not including trafficking). Kids can be in families of alcoholics and those who can abuse them.
Shelter Homes have their own problems and need auditing, tracking and investigation. Fostering is a disastrous idea in India. Some genius western NGO must have come up with this. Atleast in shelters kids have each other and multiple adults. In foster homes they are completely vulnerable.
As I keep saying, we have a talent shortage or sheer laziness. This Kanoongo person was doing some work under Maneka but now has to go with the flashiness of new boss who spends most of the time giving sound bytes and protecting Bollywood connections. I do appreciate the intention behind this move. If kids can stay with loving family then they should - poverty cannot be the reason. However that is not always the case.
See below. This is not an area we want a gold medal in.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... 377784.ece
Shelter Homes have their own problems and need auditing, tracking and investigation. Fostering is a disastrous idea in India. Some genius western NGO must have come up with this. Atleast in shelters kids have each other and multiple adults. In foster homes they are completely vulnerable.
As I keep saying, we have a talent shortage or sheer laziness. This Kanoongo person was doing some work under Maneka but now has to go with the flashiness of new boss who spends most of the time giving sound bytes and protecting Bollywood connections. I do appreciate the intention behind this move. If kids can stay with loving family then they should - poverty cannot be the reason. However that is not always the case.
See below. This is not an area we want a gold medal in.
In a global compilation of reports of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) found online, India stands right on top of the list, with 11.7% of the total reports or at 19.87 lakh reports, followed by Pakistan, which contributes 6.8% of all reports (11.5 lakh reports). Bangladesh comes in fourth with 5.5 lakh reports and a share of 3.3%.
Mr, Carr added, “I am not going to venture any guesses as to why India is the world’s number 1 but it is astonishing that three out of the four top countries — India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — are all in the same part of the world.”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... 377784.ece
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Bluntly speaking, while we have a long way to go on child issues, whatever little has been accomplished since 2014 is miles ahead of what was accomplished prior to that over decades.
While we do need talent infusion in the present state of affairs, one cannot accuse people of blatant corruption and deliberate oversight as was the case during the UPA and years prior to that.
If there were to be a tribunal on how children in India were compromised beyond sheer ineptitude, the UPA and other congress years would be tried as war criminals. From doing very little beyond getting woke points from NGOs with 90 percent administrative spend ( think of those who sit in Delhi gymkhana and discuss the gender divide in India) to deliberately overseeing the corruption in the midday meal schemes because hell they were their allies and their own ministers. Dig deeper and you will find vile oversight of child trafficking during disasters (by bodies close to them), open supply of minors by famous PR people and worse. They knew all that but did not care or benefited directly/ indirectly from this. The head relied on an absolution per minute to excuse all perfidy and retain control over different bif factions.
What has happened to our kids under UPA and prior is beyond criminal. The scale is mind boggling and the impact will be inter generational. Beyond that, the gross apathy and participation led to massive cruelties on the most innocent of us.
However I believe that some of the bureaucratic honchos who oversaw this during UPA era are still around, still ineffective and apathetic and need to be divested of their positions.
While we do need talent infusion in the present state of affairs, one cannot accuse people of blatant corruption and deliberate oversight as was the case during the UPA and years prior to that.
If there were to be a tribunal on how children in India were compromised beyond sheer ineptitude, the UPA and other congress years would be tried as war criminals. From doing very little beyond getting woke points from NGOs with 90 percent administrative spend ( think of those who sit in Delhi gymkhana and discuss the gender divide in India) to deliberately overseeing the corruption in the midday meal schemes because hell they were their allies and their own ministers. Dig deeper and you will find vile oversight of child trafficking during disasters (by bodies close to them), open supply of minors by famous PR people and worse. They knew all that but did not care or benefited directly/ indirectly from this. The head relied on an absolution per minute to excuse all perfidy and retain control over different bif factions.
What has happened to our kids under UPA and prior is beyond criminal. The scale is mind boggling and the impact will be inter generational. Beyond that, the gross apathy and participation led to massive cruelties on the most innocent of us.
However I believe that some of the bureaucratic honchos who oversaw this during UPA era are still around, still ineffective and apathetic and need to be divested of their positions.
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This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Alternate Bollywood and god knows how many OTT channels must be involved in this. This is one individual. Think of the victims in the shelter homes and other places. Think of the money.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/cbi-a ... 89612.html
https://www.news18.com/news/india/cbi-a ... 89612.html
CBI Arrests Junior UP Engineer for Sexual Abuse of 50 Minors, Selling Child ***** on Dark Web
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested a junior engineer of the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department for sexually abusing children for the last 10 years and selling videos of the acts on the dark net.
Officials said the accused, identified as Ram Bhawan, was arrested from Banda and has victimised over 50 children in the age group of 5-16 in Banda, Chitrakoot and other districts.
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Madhya Pradesh: 13-year-old girl kidnapped and passed on from truck to truck, gang-raped multiple times by nine men
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2021/01/17/ ... iverfront/
A 13-year-old girl was gang-raped multiple times by nine men several times in a week in Madhya Pradesh. As per the reports, she was kidnapped and gang-raped on January 4, after that she was again abducted by a truck driver from Umaria district on January 11-12. She was passed on from truck driver to truck driver before she was dropped on the highway.
The horrifying story
The girl was kidnapped by a known person and gang-raped by several men on January 4. She was let go and threatened to keep quiet. She was then again kidnapped and gang-raped by two truck drivers when she was out on an errand on January 11. The two men took her in a jungle and raped her. She was kept hostage in the truck, and they drove to a Dhaba. She was then raped by the Dhaba owner along with four other truckers.
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So far, the police have arrested seven out of nine men involved in the crime. The remaining two are still on the run.
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grooming jihad has been part of islamists and there should be much more oversight on all islamic centers if one has learned any lessons over the centuries.
‘Consensual affair’ between minors and adults not a valid defense, says SC: Here’s why it is significant in view of growing Grooming Jihad cases
https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/consens ... ing-jihad/
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The child labor travesty in India must stop. As a child I remember that the shops and restaurants had little kids working. These kids were not children of proprietors but shipped from villages and stripped of all rights. We were pretty apathetic then as this was a usual sight. Why must we continue now? So many generations have been lost. I remember little kids working as domestic help in some of the neighbors homes and our families would raise their eyebrows but do nothing. And look at this thread itself. There are a few participants but why is this not a burning issue when it is so widespread and so deep. Do you get any whatsapp forwards on this? What is wrong with us Indians.
The WCD ministry is as usual asleep with the people at helm only interested in self aggrandizement. They will do one more zoom conference but not address this on a war footing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... r-in-india
The WCD ministry is as usual asleep with the people at helm only interested in self aggrandizement. They will do one more zoom conference but not address this on a war footing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... r-in-india
“I would get 2kg of grains a day for working in the field, but after lockdown, all food ran out at home,” said Manjhi. “I had nothing to serve my seven children to eat, so I asked my eldest child to go out for work. My son too said if he worked he would get food and would also provide the same to us.”
While the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked devastation on India, no one has suffered worse than its children. In the space of seven months, the country has been set back decades in the fight against child labour, child trafficking and child marriage, with the lockdown and the economic collapse that followed creating a perfect storm of poverty and exploitation. Schools, which are not only vital for education but act as an essential surveillance mechanism to ensure that children are kept out of the hands of child traffickers and not pushed into arranged underage marriages, have been closed since March.
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And of course this is happening under ones own nose. Everyone knows about it but nothing is ever done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORknPC ... =emb_title
India: The Child Sex Highway | 101 Eas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORknPC ... =emb_title
India: The Child Sex Highway | 101 Eas
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A notorious highway in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is the site of a shocking trade.
Girls as young as 10 are being forced to work as prostitutes – and it’s their own families selling them to passing trucks.
The girls are from the Bachara tribe, a low-caste community known as Dalits.
Most of the Bachara men say discrimination stops them from getting jobs, so generations of girls have supported their families through prostitution.
Meneka’s mother forced her into prostitution at the age of 15.
She now has a two-year-old daughter of her own, and says she feels trapped.
“I feel like I am born in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing. But what can I do? I can’t say much because this is our tradition.”
Filming undercover, 101 East discovers girls as young as 10 are being offered to men.
While India introduced tougher child rape laws in 2018, advocates say the laws are not properly enforced.
“The people who are exploiting the child - they are not customers, they are rapists,” says Asheif Shaikh, the founder of a local NGO that frees local girls from what he describes as sexual slavery.
“This practice is like the serial rape of the children ... They are raped about 10 to 12 times in a day.”
Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of reported child rape cases of any state in the nation
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Groping a minor’s breast without ‘skin contact’ not sexual assault: Details of the shocking Bombay High Court verdict
https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/bombay- ... act-minor/
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The case pertained to an matter from 2016 where the appellant in the current case was accused of taking the minor victim, aged around 12 years, to his house under the pretext of giving her guava and then proceeded to press her breast and attempted to remove her salwar. Her mother, fortunately, reached the spot right then and rescued her daughter.
The Bombay High Court verdict noted that according to the mother, she was told by her neighbour that the accused took her daughter to his house. However, when she asked him about the whereabouts of her daughter, he denied that she was at his house.
“PW-1 (mother) searched for her daughter on the ground floor and then she went up to first floor. The room was bolted from outside. She opened it and found her daughter. Her daughter was crying. She took out her daughter from that room and her daughter narrated the incident that on the pretext of giving guava to her, the appellant brought her to his house and pressed her breast and when he tried to remove her knicker, she shouted. Thereafter he went out, after bolting the room from outside,” the verdict said.
Details of the case as noted by the Bombay High Court
Following the incident, an FIR was registered against the appellant (accused) under Sections 354, 363 and 342 of the IPC and under Section 8 of the POCSO Act. The Special Court in Nagpur, after a charge-sheet was filed by the Police, framed charges against the accused under Sections 361, 354, 342 and 309 of the IPC and under Section 8 of the POCSO Act. The accused was ultimately convicted of the charges against him but was acquitted of the section 309 (suicide) charge against him.
The victim confirmed the series of events. In light of the facts on hand, the Bombay High Court held that “the appellant is acquitted under Section 8 of the POCSO Act and convicted under minor offence u/s 354 of IPC and sentenced him to undergo R.I. for one year and to pay fine of Rs.500/-, in default of fine to suffer R.I. for one month. The sentence for the offence punishable under Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code i.e. six months and fine of Rs.500/-, in default to suffer R.I. for one month, is maintained.”
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Mumbai court grants bail to rape accused after mother of victim requested his release for marriage with daughter: Details
https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/mumbai- ... -pregnant/
In a bizarre incident, a special court in Mumbai granted bail to a 25-year-old man who raped and impregnated a 16-year-old girl after he expressed willingness to marry the minor girl.
According to reports, the POCSO Act court granted bail to the accused, who is already married, after it found that their relationship was ‘consensual’. The 16-year old’s mother has also submitted an affidavit seeking the release of the accused stating that her daughter had given birth to their daughter.
The court also noted that the man was ‘willing’ to marry the minor after two years when she is an adult.
Meanwhile, the police had opposed the bail of the accused as there was no evidence to show that the man’s first wife had consented to his second marriage. The police also alleged that the man had lured the minor girl who was not aware of the consequences and now intends to take undue advantage by offering to marry her.
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You missed this plum statement:darshan wrote:Mumbai court grants bail to rape accused after mother of victim requested his release for marriage with daughter: Details
https://www.opindia.com/2021/01/mumbai- ... -pregnant/
In a bizarre incident, a special court in Mumbai granted bail to a 25-year-old man who raped and impregnated a 16-year-old girl after he expressed willingness to marry the minor girl.
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The court also noted that the man was ‘willing’ to marry the minor after two years when she is an adult.
Meanwhile, the police had opposed the bail of the accused as there was no evidence to show that the man’s first wife had consented to his second marriage. The police also alleged that the man had lured the minor girl who was not aware of the consequences and now intends to take undue advantage by offering to marry her.
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No word on whether the community of the 16-year old victim is the same as that of the accused."However, the lawyer representing the case said that the man was allowed to marry more than once in the community of the accused."
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Punjab and Haryana HC cites Sharia again: Says marriage of minor Muslim girl is legal because she has ‘attained puberty’
https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/punjab- ... d-puberty/
Reiterating the Muslima law on marriage, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said that a Muslims girl can be married off to anyone on attaining puberty even if she has not yet completed 18 years of age. The High Court referred to Article 195 of the book ‘Principles of Mohammedan Law’ by Sir Dinshah Fardunji Mullah, which is considered as one of the authoritative texts on Muslim personal law.
The High Court said that a Muslim girl who has attained puberty is allowed to marry a person of her choice as per the Muslim personal law.
Muslim law book says mentally disabled persons, children who have not attained puberty can also be married off by ‘guardian’
Quoting Article 195 from Mulla’s book, the High Court explained the ‘capacity of marriage’ under Muslim personal law. “Every Mohomedan of sound mind, who has attained puberty, may enter into a contract of marriage. Lunatics and minors who have not attained puberty may be validly contracted into marriage by their respective guardians. A marriage of a Mohammedan who is (of) sound mind and has attained puberty is void if it is brought without his consent”, the High Court reportedly quoted. It added, “Puberty is presumed, in the absence of evidence, on completion of the age of 15 years”.
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Speaking at an event in 2017, SC judge Justice AK Sikri had said that though the Prevention of Child Marriage Act is a secular law, child marriages are still rampant because the societies have refused to change. He had cited that the Muslim Personal Law is in conflict with the Prevention of Child Marriage Act because, under it, a girl who has attained puberty becomes eligible for marriage. He had also stated that a girl can also attain puberty at the age of 11 and such religious personal laws are making it difficult for a social evil like child marriage to be eradicated.
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There has been a quite a few 'Controversial' to say the least, judgements from by single judge benches ( and twice by lady judges to say the least, I am no misogynist) is a disturbing trend.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 778435.cms
muslim girl on attaining puberty can marry, no skin to skin contact then not sexual assualt!!!
How do these judges get appointed to the High Courts!!
Is it because of sheer number of vacancies that progress is assured or family connections or graft???
Whatever is the cause this does not augur well for the future!!!
The land that gave Krishna Iyer/Bhagawathi et al now seeing this
If Collegium is the cause then how did that system throw up a Krishna Iyer or a Bhagawathi!!
The GOI and/or the Collegium has to stem this rot!
Sorry posting in this thread as I did not know where else to!!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 778435.cms
muslim girl on attaining puberty can marry, no skin to skin contact then not sexual assualt!!!
How do these judges get appointed to the High Courts!!
Is it because of sheer number of vacancies that progress is assured or family connections or graft???
Whatever is the cause this does not augur well for the future!!!
The land that gave Krishna Iyer/Bhagawathi et al now seeing this
If Collegium is the cause then how did that system throw up a Krishna Iyer or a Bhagawathi!!
The GOI and/or the Collegium has to stem this rot!
Sorry posting in this thread as I did not know where else to!!