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NCPCR asks Haryana govt to map all child care institutions

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

In a letter to the Chief Secretary of Haryana, Vinod Tikoo, a member of NCPCR has recommended several measures to ensure that such incidents do not recur.

"Mapping of all the Child Care Institutions in the district should be undertaken on a war footing," Tikoo said in his letter and asked the state to ensure registration of such ECIs under Juvenile Justice within 3 months.

Tikoo said NCPCR had taken cognizance of the news report that minors had been raped and abused in a Gurgaon orphanage and a team visited the 'Suparna ka Angan' where alleged sexual and physical abuse of the children was reported.

 

The NCPCR letter mentioned that since there was variation in the number of individual case files in the Home and physical presence of children, efforts be made to record the number of children not available

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First Published: May 09 2012 | 10:05 PM IST

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