BPNI NEWS DESK, NEW DELHI: Mrs. Shantha Sinha, chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Children's Rights, while addressing a group of NGOs said that the Commission, which was recently constituted by Government of India, was committed for protection of the rights of children. “We are looking at children in their social, cultural and economic contexts. Commission's mandate is to cover all children including infants and young children,” she said.
Explaining the role of the Commission, Mrs. Shantha Sinha said that the Commission would raise public awareness on child rights. “It will take cognizance of the violations of the child rights and make necessary recommendations to the Government for protection of the rights of children,” informed Mrs. Sinha.
Mrs. Sinha visited BPNI office on April 17 to attend a meeting on children's right to nutrition. She asked the members of the NGOs to bring only those issues, which are concerned to the rights of children.
In the consultation meet, the members of the NGOs discussed legal framework and public awareness on child rights, revitalization of IMS Act, child and woman's nutrition, maternity entitlements, prevention of maternal, neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality and morbidity rate and a technical protocol for childbirth.
In the consultation meet, Dr. Arun Gupta, national coordinator of BPNI, raised the needs of a protocol for childbirth and its legal framework. “Women should get the technical support during child birth. The important issue here is to provide education to women”, opined Dr. Gupta.
The existing welfare schemes of the country don't support infants within the age group 0-6 months. There is a special requirement to emphasize and recognize the needs of the infants, especially their rights on nutrition. The right to survival, growth and development should be the first right of the infants and a legal protection of this right would actually lead to the fulfillment of nutritional needs of the children.
Commission's member secretary Mrs. Shalini Prasad and its member Mrs. Sandhya Bajaj were also present. The other dignitaries attended the meeting were Mrs. Mridula Bajaj and Mrs. Devika Singh from Mobile Crèches; Dr. Mira Shiva from AIDAN/JSA; Mrs. Lakshmi Menon from WABA Gender Programme; Mrs. Radha Holla and Mr. Subrata Dutta from BPNI.
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