-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government's practice of letting the Prime Minister's Office take all the major decisions on behalf of virtually every ministry resulted in the women and child development ministry receiving flak from the Supreme Court this week. On Wednesday, the court rapped the ministry for allowing the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights to remain vacant for the past three months since the tenures of...
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Centre not serious about child rights, apex court says -Amit Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Expressing deep concern over the failure of government to put in place a proper mechanism to trace Missing Children, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought assistance of premier institutes - FMS of Delhi University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai-to find thousands of children who go missing every year. The court also asked National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad to evolve a training module for police...
More »Assam: Violence displaces 7,000, among them a woman with newborn -Samudra Gupta Kashyap and Biswanath Charial
-The Indian Express On Tuesday morning, Lukumoni Orang gave birth to a baby boy. Less than 12 hours later, she was running through paddy fields, holding the infant close to her chest, chased by suspected NDFB(S) militants firing their AK-series weapons. A resident of Milanpur village, near Sonajuli-Phulbari, where the armed militants struck on Tuesday evening, Lukumoni is among the many Adivasis who have taken shelter at the Tinisuti Middle School, about...
More »More Girls Missing in 'Developed' States
Child sex ratio (CSR) in India has declined from 927 in 2001 to 918 in 2011 (girls per 1,000 boys), according to a new report entitled Missing Girls: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India (Census 2011). Of the total 640 districts in the country, 429 districts have experienced decline in CSR (see the link below). Of these 429 districts, 26 districts exhibited drastic decline (of 50 points or more),...
More »Crimes against women, children on the rise in Delhi, says report -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu A recent report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) indicate that there has been a significant rise in the number of registered cases of crimes against women and children in Delhi/NCR. Sample this: the number of rape cases has seen a spurt from 706 in 2012 to more than double at 1,636 last year, while cases of assault on women with intent to outrage her modesty have spiked...
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