NCPCR - POLITY

News: Delhi child rights panel questions NCPCR, will frame own guidelines

 

What's in the news?

       The Delhi Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) wrote to the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), picking apart the guidelines it had framed for conducting preliminary assessment of children in conflict with law (CCLs).

       Pointing out the inconsistencies in the NCPCR guidelines, the Delhi body said it would frame its own.

       It also recommended that the NCPCR amend its guidelines accordingly and prepare for other State CPCRs to formulate their own guidelines specific to their context and reality.

 

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR):

       It is a statutory body set up in 2007 under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005.

       It works under the aegis of Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India.

       Under the NCPCR, the Child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.

 

Mandate:

       To ensure that all laws, policies, programmes, and administrative mechanisms are in consonance with the child rights perspective as enshrined in

       The Constitution of India and

       The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

Powers:

       It enquires into complaints relating to a child's right to free and compulsory education under the Right to Education Act, 2009.

       It monitors the implementation of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.