-The Times of India BENGALURU: A Union government-backed survey has revealed a disturbing trend: in the six years since the Right to Education Act, around 60 lakh children between ages six and 13 years remain unschooled in the country. While children from Scheduled Castes and Tribes form 49% (29.73 lakh) of the deprived kids, those from Other Backward Classes constitute 36%, which shows RTE has brought little change in the lives of...
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PMO delays, ministry gets court flak -Ananya Sengupta
-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...
More »Missing kids anger SC
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Supreme Court today castigated the governments of Chhattisgarh and Bihar for providing inadequate and inaccurate data on missing children and for not adhering to its order on mandatory FIRs. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justices A.K. Sikri and Arun Misra, which heard representatives of both states, asked them to file fresh affidavits detailing the number of children rescued and the number of FIRs filed while...
More »Kailash Satyarthi: India has hundreds of problems, but millions of solutions -Avijit Ghosh, Ambika Pandit & Surojit Gupta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Noisy OB vans and an unending caravan of cars: on Friday afternoon, Kalkaji, a middle-class locality in south Delhi, was suddenly abuzz with activity and animation. It's barely an hour since the news flashed on TV screens. But everybody knows that L-6, a slim, unremarkable two-storey building, has become a very famous address. For word has gone around that it is the workstation of child...
More »Sex predators, traffickers target kids at will in Delhi -Neelam Pandey
-The Hindustan Times For the past three years, Kunwar Pal is looking for his missing 12-year-old son. He tries to follow every lead that he gets and travels across the city and nearby towns in the search of his son who went missing in November 2003 from Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. He regularly visits the police station, where he had registered a missing persons' complaint and pastes photos of his son...
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