Child Rights Protection Committee(CRPC) formed at Dalapchand Gram Panchayat

Mukesh Sharma, KalimNews & Kalimpong News Express, Kalimpong: Today two meeting were held by Bal Suraksha Abhiyan Trust, a non-governmental organization working for child rights and prevention of any form of crime against children. The main objective of the meeting was to tell the community members about how they could prevent such crimes against children at their area and what could be done if such cases occur. Along with that the major reason was to set up a Child Rights Protection Committee(CRPC), a community based mechanism where it would function as the ears and eyes of the community and keeps a watch at what the children in their area are doing and also focus on issues related to children.

The committees were formed at Lower Bidyang and Lower Dalapchand guided by Child Release Officer Mr. Tej Kumar Thapa, Megha Gazmer and Dicky Bhutia other staffs from BSA at Dalapchand area. 12 members at Lower Dalapchand and 14 members at Lower Bidyang were selected. These members were from different walks of life like SHG, I.C.D.S Centre, School teachers and Members of Gram Panchayat.

For each of the committee President and Secretary were also elected. At Lower Dalapchand, Mr Deepak Chandra Rai Principal of Mariegold Nursery School was elected as President and Miss Sunita Tamang member of S.H.G and Gram Panchayat as the secretary. At Lower Bidyang,  Mr Sunil Rai was elected as the President and Mrs Santoshi Pradhan was elected as Secretary. The meeting had an impressing feedback, all the members appreciated the effort BSA to bring about awareness regarding child rights, and all the community members also offered a helping hand to BSA. During the meeting most of the community members also highlighted the problem at their areas and discussed about the ways of eliminating them.