Court asks legal authority lawyers to inspect creches
May 14th, 2010 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday asked its legal services committee to make surprise visits to anganwadis (creches), run by the social welfare department, which were reportedly in bad shape.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta asked the committee to formulate a team of 10 lawyers who will make surprise visits to the 10 anganwadi centres - run under the government’s Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) - randomly and then submit their report by July 19.
Hearing a petition on utilisation of funds received by the state government from the central government as also under the ICDS budget, the court Wednesday expressed its strong displeasure over the manner in which anganwadis were working despite the department having around 13,500 workers.
It termed the situation where the children were not being given proper nutrition and care as “tragic”.
Senior advocate Arvind Nigam earlier told the court that the department could not be allowed to spend as much as 52 percent of the money in setting up distribution channels while disbursing only 42 percent for the benefit of the children.
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