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KSCPCR yet to issue revised daycare guidelines month after abuse
The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) has not yet drafted revised guidelines for monitoring private crèches, a month after caretakers abused children at a daycare inside a major…
The Story in Brief
The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) has not yet drafted revised guidelines for monitoring private crèches, a month after caretakers abused children at a daycare inside a major IT firm's campus in Bengaluru. The commission has formed an expert committee, but no draft has been released, The Hindu reports.
The proposed guidelines will designate a nodal department to oversee crèches across the state and set up a district-level inspection committee. Former KSCPCR member K.T. Thippeswamy criticised the delay, saying the commission should already have issued the rules. Currently, no single state agency monitors private crèches under the 2015 framework.
The Indian Opinion
The KSCPCR's claim that it has formed an expert committee sounds like progress, but a month after children were abused in a major IT firm's daycare, parents have only promises. The real test is not the committee's formation but the speed with which it publishes draft guidelines and names a nodal department. Will the government appoint district-level inspection committees with real powers within the next two months? That will decide whether this is action or theatrics.
Source: thehindu.com
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