NCPCR gets 800 complaints

HYDERABAD: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) at a state-level public hearing on free and compulsory education directed the authorities concerned to solve the problems  pertaining to violation of children’s rights to education and other child rights. NCPCR has received as many as 800 complaints from across the state on violations of children’s right to education, sexual abuse, child labour, gender discrimination and other child rights. The commission  had asked the authorities concerned to submit an action taken report in three months failing which they would be liable for prosecution.A jury comprising of NCPCR chairperson Shantha Sinha, former chairperson,SHRC, justice B. Subhashan Reddy and members of NCPCR Dipa Dixit and Yogesh Dube heard about 37 complaints pertaining to violation of children’s right to education and other child rights issues out of the around 800 complaints received.Later speaking to reporters, Shantha Sinha and Subhashan Reddy said the Commission would closely monitor all the complaints and see that they were addressed without any delay.