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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SC rap for orphan rules -Samanwaya Rautray

SC rap for orphan rules -Samanwaya Rautray

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published Published on Aug 26, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 26, 2012
-The Telegraph

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to explain why state-run orphanages throw out inmates the day they turn 18 though they may be unemployed and unable to fend for themselves.

Acting on a public interest litigation filed by lawyer Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, the court issued the notices on Tuesday to the Union women and child development ministry and its counterparts in all the states and Union territories.

It asked the petitioner to find out the total number of inmates at orphanages and the details of their education and training.

“Get these figures. We must know these figures so that we can do something,” the bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Swantanter Kumar told Choudhari.

The petition described how orphans are turned out into the street at 18 without “food, clothes and shelter”, by governments that don’t bother to keep data about their numbers or find out what happens to them.

Taught barely till Class X or XII, they have no access to further education because the government provides no money, scholarships or even tuition fee concessions. Nor does it provide them loans for self-employment or reserve jobs for them as it does for Dalits, backward classes or tribals.

Most of these orphans are not even aware of their caste or tribe and are among the weakest of the weak, the petition argued. They lack documents such as ration cards, domicile certificates, voter I-cards or BPL (below poverty line) certificates.

“In such a situation, most of them go out of the mainstream and lead a life of vagrancy” apart from those “lucky enough to get small-time jobs such as waiter, etc”, the petition said.

It claimed that all the states and the Centre had been provided these details and asked to act but none responded. It urged the top court to direct the government to frame a policy for rehabilitation and social integration of orphans, providing them scholarships, hostel accommodation and employment.

The petition was filed on behalf of Pune-based lawyer Rajendra D. Anbhule, 35, founder president of the Centre for Human Rights advocacy, an NGO working for human rights.

It said some states such as Maharashtra have after-care centres where orphans “lucky enough to get shelter” receive education opportunities till the age of 21 — but their number is negligible.

For instance, Maharashtra has 80,000 orphans but just four after-care homes — only one of them state-run — sheltering 210 boys. There are none for girls. Other states have “very few after-care centres” or none at all.

The petition cited how Maharashtra’s women and child development department claimed to provide a marriage aid of Rs 15,000 to female orphans but had actually helped only 42 between 2004 and 2011.


Outlook, 26 August, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120826/jsp/nation/story_15899528.jsp#.UDmkCKAXVwc


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