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NEW DELHI: In order to assist Indian women facing violence or any kind of distress when they are visiting overseas or living there, the government has decided to set-up one-stop centres (OSC) to provide legal, medical and emotional support across 10 missions in nine countries to begin with. The ministry of external affairs will set-up and operate these OSCs in the missions abroad with support from the Union ministry of women and child development.
“One OSC will be established in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, in the UAE, Australia, Canada and Singapore, while two will be established in Saudi Arabia,” a senior WCD ministry official said, noting that 300 more OSCs will also be opened across India.
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Karnataka forms a committee that will identify children orphaned by covid-19 and send them to facilities run by NGOs
A tragic fallout of covid is that it has created a large number of orphans. Many children have lost parents who succumbed to covid.
Social media is filled with requests to ‘adopt’ children who are newly orphaned. Posters of child care services are floating on WhatsApp groups, which promise to offer children food, emotional security support.
Considering the seriousness of the issue, and how vulnerable children are when they find themselves orphaned, the government has formed a committee to identify such children and provide them with shelter. These children will be handed over to their extended families after verification or sent to institutions / orphanages managed by NGOs, under the
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren (File photo)
BOKARO: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday virtually inaugurated 50 state-of-the-art Anganwadi centres, named Nand Ghar, of Vedanta Group’s ESL Steel Plant at Sindurpeti in Chandankyari block of Bokaro district. The Nand Ghar initiative has been introduced to promote education, women empowerment and eradicate child malnutrition, ESL said.
However, soon after the inauguration, BJP’s Chandankyari MLA Amar Bauri had raised his voice against Nand Ghar in the Budget session and termed the initiative “eyewash”. Notably, Bauri has been at loggerheads with the company over a “hushed up” public hearing for acquiring land to expand the plant.