MCPCR ‘rehabilitates’
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IMPHAL, May 27: A never-enrolled girl child has been brought back to the mainstream and introduced to formal education following an intervention by the Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR).
Upon receipt of a request letter from the Social Upliftment Association, a voluntary organisation which is implementing the Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE) scheme under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Imphal West, MCPCR intervened for the mainstreaming and rehabilitation of a 7-year-old girl who was found accompanying an elderly woman of Hatta Golapati, engaged in begging activities near the Khwairamband Keithel overbridge.
The child was produced before the commission following which the MCPCR intimated the ZEO, Imphal East Zone-II to facilitate her admission in a nearby Government school.
The MCPCR also assigned the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), Imphal East to assist the child in obtaining essential identity documents such as birth certificate, Aadhaar card etc to ensure her access to education and welfare entitlements. The DCPU was also directed to conduct a social investigation process for facilitating sponsorship support under the Mission Vatsalya Scheme, said a press release issued by MCPCR Programme Officer Sumel Yumnam.
Upon receipt of a request letter from the Social Upliftment Association, a voluntary organisation which is implementing the Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE) scheme under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Imphal West, MCPCR intervened for the mainstreaming and rehabilitation of a 7-year-old girl who was found accompanying an elderly woman of Hatta Golapati, engaged in begging activities near the Khwairamband Keithel overbridge.
The child was produced before the commission following which the MCPCR intimated the ZEO, Imphal East Zone-II to facilitate her admission in a nearby Government school.
The MCPCR also assigned the District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), Imphal East to assist the child in obtaining essential identity documents such as birth certificate, Aadhaar card etc to ensure her access to education and welfare entitlements. The DCPU was also directed to conduct a social investigation process for facilitating sponsorship support under the Mission Vatsalya Scheme, said a press release issued by MCPCR Programme Officer Sumel Yumnam.