A joint meeting of Childline City Advisory Board and District Child Protection Committee was held under the chairmanship of District Development Commissioner, Haroon Malik, here today.Senior Consultant NDF briefed the meeting about the functioning of Childline City Advisory board and District Child Protection Committee in the district. He also discussed various child protection issues and intervention of Childline and DCPC on these issues.The DDC, after detailed discussion with the members of CAB and DCPC, said that there is need of a survey at district level wherein the severity of the issues including child labour, bonded labour, child marriage, dropout children, orphan children and children affected by various conflicts can be assessed and proper intervention can be planned to minimize such issues. He asked CPO Poonch to devise a mechanism in the district wherein the exact number of nomads who migrate in other districts can be traced so that further steps can be taken to make arrangements for education of such children.
To tackle with the issue of children involved in begging, the DDC recommended a survey by Municipal Committee in the Municipal area and through Education, Rural Development and Social Welfare Departments besides Childline team in rural areas so that requisite steps can be taken for their rehabilitation.For wider publicity of childline and awareness on child protection issues, DDC asked DSWO to publicize the same during the awareness campaigns launched in the district from June 1st and involve the civil society members and childline team in these campaigns. He also directed the Labour Commissioner to keep a vigil on every Dhaba and Hotel in Poonch city and ensure that there is no children involved in child labour.Members of Childline City Advisory Board (CAB) and District Child Protection Committee (DCPC) Poonch including ADDC Gurdeep Singh, Additional SP Masoor Ahmed Mir, ACR Mohd Ashraf Chouhdary, DSWO Mukhlis Ali, CPO, S.R. Bhagat, ACD Basharat Hussain, DEPO Makhan Lal Sharma, Sr. Consultant NDF, Rajiv Khajuria, CEO Municipal Committee Irshad Hussain, Tehsildar Haveli Mohd Saghir, Vinay Mohan Misri, Mohd Zaman Advocate, Pardeep Khanna Director Childline Kirpal Singh, Counsellor Childline Amit Kumar, Programme Manager NDF Parvinder Singh, PC NDF Sunny Kumar, Pranshu Kabra and others attended the meeting.