Shiv Sena lauds MP govt s decision to support COVID-orphaned kids with monthly pension ANI | Updated: May 15, 2021 10:17 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 15 (ANI): Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, in its editorial on Saturday, heaped praises on Madhya Pradesh government for its decision to provide a monthly pension of 5,000 to those children who lost their parents or guardians to COVID-19 and said this move by the state government is exemplary. Coronavirus is wreaking havoc in the country. In this backdrop, the decision taken by the Madhya Pradesh government to give Rs 5,000 pension every month to children who got orphaned due to COVID is a message for the country. For this humanitarian step, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and his government can not be appreciated enough, the editorial said.
Covid leaves orphaned children vulnerable to trafficking; authorities wary
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Synopsis Over the last week especially, contact details and addresses of children orphaned by Covid have been shared widely across social media. This makes them a bait for child traffickers who come as relatives, propose adoption etc,” said Sonal Kapoor Singh, chief executive officer of Delhi-based NGO-Protsahan India Foundation.
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Adoption agencies, child welfare associations and NGOs across India are concerned that photographs of children who have lost parents to Covid-19 are doing the round on social media with their contacts and addresses. Sharing of children s details is attracting child traffickers and the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has even asked the Delhi Police to be more vigilant on social media and ensure children don t fall prey to trafficking”.
Nodal officer to take care of orphaned chilren
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In order to provide all necessary facilities and support to orphaned children due to COVID-19 pandemic in the State, the government has appointed K.P. Mohan Raj, IAS officer and Inspector General of Registration and Commissioner of Stamps, as Nodal Officer to identify such children.
The Nodal Officer will also be responsible for making long-term arrangement to take care of such children, said an order issued by Revenue Department Principal Secretary N .Manjunatha Prasad, who is also the member secretary of the executive committee of the Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority.
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KOTA KINABALU: Four children were orphaned when their family was involved in a car accident where three people, including their parents, perished along the Kimanis-Keningau road late Wednesday (March 31).
The four surviving children, aged between four and 15 comprising a boy and three girls, were injured and are being treated at a hospital.
Papar OCPD Deputy Supt Batholomew Umpit said the victims were in a car carrier truck heading towards Kota Kinabalu in the 10.15pm accident. They were all from Keningau and were going to Kota Kinabalu to repair their car, he said.
The father, who was driving, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a hill slope.
EAST GODAVARI: Peddapuram police solved the murder case of a woman whose partially burnt body was found in a mango orchard and arrested the woman's husband and mother. Peddapuram DSP Aritakula Srinivasa Rao held a press conference at the Rural Police Station on Wednesday and revealed details. A woman's body which was half burnt was found in a mango orchard at the outskirts of