State Commission on Child Rights instituted, finally Ministerial team bound for Kerala to rescue 23 kids
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, August 17, 2012: Considering the need to curb increasing crimes against children including trafficking them to other parts of the country, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) has been established in the state finally.

Announcing this during a press conference today, AK Mirabai, Minister of Social Welfare, said that with establishment of SCPCR in the state, formation of a Committee under the Commission is also under process.

The committee would have 6 members.

Apart from acting as protector of the children, the Committee would check employment of children as labourers in any firm or as helper in private homes.

The Minister informed that since 2008 to 2011, the state government has been able to rescue 314 children who were trafficked to other parts of the country.

A team of delegates led by G Satyabati, Director of Social Welfare Department, Government of Manipur, has left Imphal today to rescue another 23 trafficked children from Kerala.

The rescued children would be brought by the officials of Social Welfare Department, Government of Karnataka upto Manipur Bhawan in Kolkata, and the officials of the state government would bring them back to Imphal by August 19. The Minister further informed that the rescued children would be handed over to their parents after a thorough investigation.

The conditions under the children were trafficked and whether the parents are involved in the act or not would be thoroughly investigated.

If the parents were found involved in the act, then they would be punished in accordance to the law of the land.

The traffickers would also not be spared.

The Minister assured that all children below the age of 14 years would be protected and all the rescued children would be given free education.

In order to take up necessary legal actions against the traffickers, the DGP of Manipur has been contacted, she added.

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