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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sonia panel bats for vendors, anganwadis by Radhika Ramaseshan

Sonia panel bats for vendors, anganwadis by Radhika Ramaseshan

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published Published on Jun 12, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2011
In the season of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council too is mounting pressure on the Centre to accept its recommendations on various social sector legislations.

Over the past one month, the council has handed in its versions of the food security and communal violence bills as well as four notes on land acquisition, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), protection of street vendors and the eradication of manual scavenging.

The Centre is expected to soon take on board the proposals on the land acquisition and food security bills, both of which the Congress president wants passed in the monsoon session of Parliament.

Yesterday, the council put up on its website its suggestions relating to the ICDS, street vendors’ rights and manual scavenging.

It has mentioned “several deficiencies” in the original ICDS, implemented in 1975, and advocated a 1,000-day timetable, from the time of pregnancy till the child goes to nursery school.

The panel has underscored the centrality of creches to the ICDS and the need to engage the panchayats, municipalities and co-operative societies in the running of anganwadi centres (play centres in villages).

It says the anganwadi centres must not be seen just as hubs of the Centre’s “feeding programme” but as places where children can get pre-primary education and their mothers receive counselling on health and nutrition.

Unfazed by the criticism that the communal violence bill upsets the Centre-state power balance, the NAC has pitched for a central law to replace the proposed Model Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill, 2009.

According to the council, the model bill allows the Centre to wash its hands of the matter and leave the execution of the legislation entirely to the states. But the council believes a central law is justified because street vending is not a matter of “mere municipal regulation” but of “livelihoods, employment and social security of a significant number of urban poor households”.

It says the central law should “prevail” if the states’ municipal and police laws are inconsistent with it. “If the protection of street vending is left to the goodwill of (the) states, it is unlikely that many states will enact legislation,” the council says.

The panel has proposed that those who handle human excreta in dry latrines should be immediately “liberated” and rehabilitated, while those doing a similar job in the railways should be “liberated” through technical changes that do away with the practice.

It has emphasised that manual scavenging should be treated as an offence under the SC/ST Act as people are required to do the job simply because they were born into a particular caste.

The Telegraph, 12 June, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110612/jsp/nation/story_14103171.jsp


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