Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Oct 22: National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development Regional Centre Mohali is organising a 3-day training programme on Juvenile Justice Act 2015, Child Protection Scheme and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012 and (Amended) Act 2019, for the first time in Leh.
Additional Director NIPCCD Delhi Krishna Murthy inaugurated the 3-day training programme here today.
Addressing the gathering, he spoke about the importance of child protection acts in a society where children have to face various physical and mental challenges at a tender age when they have to be free from all burdens and thus the constitutional acts are formed to safeguard the rights of children.
Secretary, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Leh Spalzes Angmo lauding the efforts of CPS Leh said, “My presence in the meeting is to appreciate and encourage the employees of Child Protection Scheme Leh for doing commendable work in the district with limited resources”.
Assistant Director NIPCCD Regional Centre Mohali Sunil Kumar said, the training is being conducted with the aim to fill the gaps in training so that the stakeholders involved in the implementation of JJ Act do not have to face any challenges.
As Ladakh is now a Union Territory the central laws and Acts will become applicable in our region also and therefore the POCSO Act 2015will be applicable in place of J&K POCSO Act 2013, said chairperson Child Welfare Committee Leh Dr Konchok Paldan while talking to media persons.
“We all are in a way or the other involved with children and it becomes our moral duty to take note of, guide them and inform the concerned authorities about negative effects that many of our young children are being dragged into by way of peer pressure, depression due to education and family, flashy world of materialist importance and other factors”, Dr Paldan said.
Stakeholders including officers and officials of ICDS, Special Juvenile Unit of Police, Labour, Education, Health, Social Welfare, Integrated Child Protection Scheme ICPS, NGOs of Leh and stakeholders from Kargil district are participating in this training.
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