Ministries of Women and Child Development and Human Resource Development will hold a high level meeting in New Delhi tomorrow to develop a set of guidelines and protocols for the protection of school children from any kind of physical or mental abuse. The meeting will be co-chaired by the Minister of Women an Child Development, Maneka Gandhi and Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javdekar. Officials of the two ministries, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, CBSE, NCERT, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan will also participate in the meeting. <br/><br/>In a telephonic discussion, Ms. Gandhi requested HRD Minister to consider suggestions like having women employees as the support staff and bus drivers, conductors in the schools, screening of educational films on child sexual abuse in the schools, popularizing POCSO e-Box and Child line 1098 through NCERT publications. Women and Child Development Ministry has already started its outreach campaign for protection of children through electronic as well as social media.
News On AIR | September 12, 2017 2:40 PM
Ministries of Women and Child Development and HRD to hold high level meeting tomorrow on safety and protection of children in schools