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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Registered Child care institutions in India: registered under the Juvenile Act

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The State/UT-wise number of child care institutions registered under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 in the country and being provided financial assistance under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is as following.

Sl. No.
Name of the State/UT
No. of Homes
No. of Open Shelters
No. of SAAs
1
Andhra Pradesh
105
10
23
2
Arunachal Pradesh
1
-
1
3
Assam
7
3
4
4
Bihar
14
11
2
5
Chattisgarh
29
6
1
6
Goa
-
-
-
7
Gujarat
54
-
9
8
Haryana
22
21
3
9
Himachal Pradesh
22
2
1
10
Jammu & Kashmir
-
-
-
11
Jharkhand
15
1
5
12
Karnataka
76
23
24
13
Kerala
28
3
14
14
Madhya Pradesh
44
4
24
15
Maharashtra
86
2
17
16
Manipur
12
2
6
17
Meghalaya
18
1
1
18
Mizoram
25
-
4
19
Nagaland
19
2
2
20
Orissa
134
9
12
21
Punjab
15
-
5
22
Rajasthan
80
20
36
23
Sikkim
5
-
1
24
Tamil Nadu
243
14
15
25
Tripura
13
3
9
26
Uttar Pradesh
64
18
5
27
Uttarakhand
15
-
2
28
West Bengal
53
22
14
29
Andaman & Nicobar Island
-
-
-
30
Chandigarh
2
-
-
31
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
-
-
-
32
Daman & Diu
-
-
-
33
Delhi
25
14
2
34
Lakshadweep
-
-
-
35
Puducherry
27
2
2
Total
1253
193
244
 The data regarding number of unregistered child care institutes is not maintained centrally.

The child care institutions are required to be compulsorily registered under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and are provided financial assistance under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). The responsibility for implementation of the Act and ICPS is that of the State Government/UT administration. However, at national level, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has enquired into some complaints received by the Commission with regard to instances of child abuse and lack of residential care facilities in child care institutions. The State-wise details of such complaints received by NCPCR are being collected and will be laid on the Table of House.

The Act and Central Model Rules framed thereunder, provide for monitoring, inspection, standards of care and measures that may be taken by the State Government/UT administration to address any reported instance of child abuse or lack of residential care facilities. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been urging the State Government/UT Administration from time to time to identify and register all child care institutions, so as to ensure that standards of care can be monitored. In response to complaints received at national level, NCPCR makes recommendations to the State Government/UT administration for taking appropriate action. This was stated by Karishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha today.

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