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.
