Don’t make data of children orphaned due to COVID-19 public: UP child right’s body

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday (June 3) imposed a ban on making data of children, who grew to become orphans within the state due to the COVID-19, public within the state. The panel for the Protection of Child Rights issued a course to all District Magistrates within the state on this regard. 

Officials directed the DMs not to make public the data of the children for his or her security and well-being. They said that there will probably be a concern of growing crime towards such children if their info is made public. 

“The concerned officers and administrators of the Children’s Commission should coordinate with the media brothers. Publication of children’s information is a violation of JJ Act,” officers stated. 

Meanwhile, the central authorities has come out with tips for the care and safety of the children affected by COVID-19 and stuck duties for the states, district magistrates, police, Panchayati Raj establishments and concrete native our bodies.

In a letter to the chief secretaries of all of the states and Union territories, Women and Child Development Ministry Secretary Ram Mohan Mishra on Wednesday stated so as to streamline and facilitate the actions being taken, the main duties of the first obligation holders have been enlisted to guarantee the most effective pursuits of children in the course of the pandemic.

The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in an affidavit to the Supreme Court, stated 9,346 children have misplaced no less than one of their mother and father to the lethal virus, together with over 1,700 who’ve misplaced each their mother and father, in accordance to data acquired from the state.

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