Most states have no child rights panel: Krishna Tirath
August 25th, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Many states in the country, including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Haryana, have not set up the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Thursday.
Tirath said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that state governments have been urged from time to time about setting up state commissions for the protection of child rights.
However, a majority of states had not set up the NCPCR, which is an apex body that safeguards the rights of a child in the age group of 0 to 18 years, she said.
The other states are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andaman and Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Pondicherry.
The act is not applicable to Jammu and Kashmir, she said.
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