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.