Around half of the deaths of Indian children are due to malnutrition, which is more common in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa. The school attendance rate is low in India - only 72 per cent of children between the ages of six and ten attend primary school. Child labour is a conspicuous problem, with around 12 per cent of children between the ages of 5 and 14 involved in child labour.
Many children are trafficked and forced to work as domestic workers, in factories or prostitution. These children face social discrimination which hampers their efforts to improve their lives. Girls are in a particularly vulnerable situation as they are more likely to be poor, be homeless or end up as victims of violence. Particularly in rural areas girls do not have adequate access to basic health care, or education. In some states like Bihar, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 60 per cent or more of girls drop out of primary education.
Child marriages are also common: 47 per cent of children are married under the age of 18, with the number in rural areas nearly double that of urban ones. Facebook Twitter. Search form Search. Sponsor a Child in India in India You will receive a Canadian charitable tax receipt SOS relies on the kindness and generosity of Canadians to be able to provide a home for the most vulnerable children of India.
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US Elections World News. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. Of the total, 26, children have lost a parent, 3, have been orphaned and have been abandoned, the NCPCR.
The commission further said that the state-wise data received regarding children who have lost either their mother or father or both parents from April 1, to June 5, , irrespective of their reason of death not only death due to COVID , was uploaded on its 'Bal Swaraj' portal and collated by it.
It said Maharashtra has been worst affected with 7, children being orphaned, abandoned or have lost a parent mostly to the deadly virus since April 1 last year.
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Without any parent or effective guardian, orphans are children of the Government. Parents save, spend on and encourage their children in their education, coaching and job or business efforts. Maybe it is too much for the government to provide love and affection, confidence and comfort to these kids. Maybe it is asking for too much of the Government to help them with their homework, take them out for walks, play cricket with them in the park or tuck them into bed every night, like a doting parent.
Is it too much to ask the government to provide orphans with their basic right to life, as guaranteed under our Constitution? Though increased when compared to last year, still amounts to less than Rs 2 per child per day, that too for food, clothing, education and medical needs!
In contrast, Air India is being kept afloat with budgetary support of Rs 24, crores and while NPA write-offs to banks amount of hundreds of thousands of crores annually.
As a result, the total number of orphans and vulnerable children covered in all institutions in the country under the flagship Integrated Child Protection Scheme is 78, in as per a PIB release of January All of this and more is justified and even deemed necessary to provide an equal platform of opportunity to these children.
However, any child, no matter how weak, cannot be weaker than a child who has no parent, surviving on its own in this big, ugly world. Orphans deserve inclusion in every aspect of assistance from their parent, the State. It goes on to mean that 70 per cent of our orphan children would obviously belong to these communities. Of all solutions available, the utopia is adoption. However, it is not a significant solution to the extent of the orphan problem. Adoption in India is consistently less than children per year, thus addressing only the tip of the iceberg.
However, small policy changes could mean a paradigm shift in the lives of these children. Something as simple as a census or survey of orphans can show the Government the numbers they are dealing with. Small steps like ensuring every district in the country has the required number of orphanages, making sure each child without effective guardians reaches a Government facility.
These changes, which would be ten little words on paper, would result in the difference between life and death for that child on the sidewalk. The Indian Constitution has been kind, the body of Law has been magnanimous in taking care of those left behind, and where it has lacked, a humane society has tried to pick up the slack. We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life.
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