Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the state’s first child-friendly police station unit in the premises of Dalanwala police station in Dehradun on Friday.
Addressing the gathering, Chief minister stated that this initiative will provide friendly and unintimidating environment to children who are either victims or involved in the juvenile delinquency. Rawat asserted that children should be introduced to police as their friends and protectors rather than someone they should be scared off. Moreover, CM also announced to set up a revolving fund of Rs one crore on the request of the SCPCR chief Usha Negi for child protection and welfare programmes across the State.
Earlier, Usha Negi from State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) also stated that considering the hike in juvenile crimes in recent years, the establishment of child-friendly police station will help children to have an open interaction with authorities without being intimidated. As the next step in this initiative, all the districts will have their own child-friendly police station which will be established with the help of the police department. For the establishment of child-friendly police stations in 13 districts of the State, the child commission will issue Rs 13 lakh to the police department soon, informed Negi.
Meanwhile, the director-general of police (DGP) Ashok Kumar said that the police always make efforts to make every police station child and woman friendly. Moreover, Kumar said that about 2200 child beggars were marked under operation Mukti and now most of these children are getting school education. He asserted that people should support children, especially child beggars by taking their responsibility and directing them towards education to make them independent rather than giving them some money which does no good to them in the long run. Moreover, mayor Sunil Uniyal ‘Gama’, Rajpur MLA, Khajan Das, DIG Garhwal Neeru Garg, and the head of State Women Commission Vijaya Barthwal were also present in the event.
Saturday, 23 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
