Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Prof. Shantha Sinha: 'Improve health conditions in Adilabad'

  
Former Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Shantha Sinha demanded that state government declare health emergency in the Adilabad following the much prevalent viral fevers, malaria and dengue cases and deaths reported and to take coordinated efforts to improve the health situation in the district.

She stressed upon the need for social audit by the civil society groups and members of grampanchayat on the activities of the Anganwadis and facilities and staff available at government schools and to submit reports to the governments.

Shantha Sinha was addressing at a workshop on ‘Right to Education Act and status of the children in the District’ here jointly organized by ‘DREAM’ NGO and MV foundation in Adilabad.

She said that coordinated efforts should be made to control the seasonal outbreak diseases in the district and this was responsibility of not just health department instead all the allied departments.

Shantha Sinha appealed to the people to oversee the effective implementation of Right to Education Act and Food Security Act which empower the poor and downtrodden and said demanding the government for implementation of these Acts were not at all begging but it was people’ right.

‘Every district should have own ‘district child policy’ and member of the Zilla Parishad should debate and discuss the issues pertaining to children and come out with new measures to empower them and to protect their rights at district level’, she opined.

National convenor of MV Foundation R. Venkat Reddy said governments should take steps to reserve 25 percent seats for the students of SC and ST and economical backward communities and provide them free education as per the Right to Education Act.

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