The compliance and audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the Railways for the year ending March 2021, tabled in Parliament during the recently concluded winter session, brings to the fore the indifference with which the authorities handle children rescued at railway stations.
India’s child victims of COVID-19 | Child Rights
Last year, Shyam , 17, became one of the thousands of children in danger of living on the streets of India.
Shyam’s father had abandoned his family in Gudhiyari – a village in Raipur in Chhattisgarh state – eight years earlier. Shyam’s older brother, Gopi, who was 16 at the time, had turned to alcohol to cope, subsequently becoming violent towards their mother, 47-year-old Kishori .
To protect her and help support the family, Shyam dropped out of school when he was 10 and worked odd jobs as a dishwasher. But, unable to bear the stress and violence at home, he ran away in February 2020, in the hope of reaching Mumbai.
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