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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ensure child rights in jails, govt told -Sumir Karmakar

Ensure child rights in jails, govt told -Sumir Karmakar

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published Published on Nov 8, 2013   modified Modified on Nov 8, 2013
-The Telegraph


Guwahati: The National NGO Child Rights Coalition (NNCRC), an umbrella organisation of NGOs working for children, has urged the Assam government to protect the rights of children living in prisons or detention camps for illegal immigrants.

These children live in prison because that is where their parents live and they have nowhere else to go.

The appeal came just days after a four-member team of the NNCRC found seven children, including two girls aged around 14 and six, living at a detention camp for illegal immigrants inside Kokrajhar district jail.

During their visit on Monday, the team found that the two girls, whose parents have been declared illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, were staying with their mother Ramani Biswas while their father Dilip Biswas had been transferred to a detention camp in Goalpara jail.

The couple, who claimed to be permanent residents of Raja Mayong in Morigaon district, were declared foreigners in 2010.

"The second daughter of Ramani was two-and-a-half years old when she was declared a foreigner. The two girls have not even met their father since he was transferred to Goalpara jail in 2010," the Northeast area convenor of NNCRC, Chiranjeeb Kakoty, who led the team, told The Telegraph today.

The team found that five other children were also living with their mothers, who were declared foreigners.

"Children have specific and different needs and rights and every child living in India must be provided with a proper atmosphere for development. But we found that they have been living with their mothers in detention camps, which are inside the jails. The same jail manual is followed for all and sundry. In other words, these children eat and live with undertrials and convicts," Kakoty said.

Besides Kakoty, the team comprised Jayalaxmi Borah of Assam Pradeshik Mahila Samity, Suniti Sonowal, advocate of Gauhati High Court and Alaka Bhattacharyya, president of Northeast Society for Promotion of Youth and the Masses, an NGO.

The team interacted with the two children and their mother and spoke to officials of Kokrajhar jail, the district child welfare committee and the Bodoland Territorial Council.

The members also took stock of the living conditions of the children.

During the interaction, the team observed that no steps had been taken by the administration or the government agencies responsible for ensuring rights of the children although they had been in the jail for the past three years.

"The child welfare committee doesn't have a chairperson and so nothing tangible has happened regarding these children from that agency too," the team observed.

"Children have specific emotional needs, recreational and educational rights but how can they enjoy them inside the jail where many convicts and undertrials are living? The government and other agencies should come forward and take steps to ensure that these children get their rights" Kakoty said.


The Telegraph, 8 November, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131108/jsp/northeast/story_17541447.jsp#.UnyUhCeUVFk


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