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  • This time children will get a separate share in the state budget

    Children will get a separate share in the budget of Chhattisgarh government’s financial year 2021-22. The state government is giving it the name of the child budget. Boys and girls from zero to 18 years of age have been kept under this budget. For these, schemes operated in different departments will be organized simultaneously. According to an estimate, about 8 million children in the state will come under the purview of the child budget.

    Finance Department has completed its preparation. Earlier, the gender budget, agriculture budget and women’s budget have been presented separately in the state. The child budget will be presented for the first time. Several schemes for children are being operated in about half a dozen departments of the state. These include school education, primitive caste welfare, health, women and child development etc.

    The Finance Department has sought information from all departments about schemes for children up to 18 years of age. Based on this, the size of the child budget will be decided. It is not yet clear how much the child budget will contribute to the total budget. According to sources, the state budget could reach close to one lakh crore this year. In this, the child budget can be from 20 to 30 percent.

  • Children are cleaning the PWD Bridge, carrying garbage on bicycles

    Due to lack of proper sanitation arrangements at the PWD Bridge in Amlidih, the local children here carried bicycles of garbage on the bridge and dumped it in the garbage cart below. According to the information received, these children keep doing many projects under the inspiration of a woman. One day when these children came on the bridge, they saw garbage and garbage spread here. Then, when a complaint was made to the Municipal Corporation about cleanliness through a major, the corporation ignored it and did not cooperate. From the next day, these children along with Didi do the cleaning work on seeing garbage and go to the top of the bridge, collect it in garbage sacks, carry it on a bicycle and come down and throw it in the vehicles. In this over bridge (light bridge) built by the PWD of Amlidih, the young men and women celebrate late nights and spread garbage. Some youth are also seen getting intoxicated here and passers-by are thrown into the common garbage bridge. Nevertheless, neither cleanliness nor redressal of grievances are done by the Municipal Corporation. In such a situation, these local children come in the morning and come to clean up. In such a situation, this service of these young children is commendable and a matter of pride for the city.

  • Inspection campaign is being conducted to investigate child laborers in state institutions

    A comprehensive inspection drive is being carried out in the state for the eradication of child labor by the labor department of the state government. During child labor inspection, three child laborers below the age of 14 years were found working in the institute located at Raj Food Products, Laxmi Niwas Shiv Mandir, Kadambari Nagar, Durg. Mixing packing was being done by these children. In the inspection drive, inspection was done for the elimination of child laborers in food products by a joint team of labor department officials, women and child development department officers and child help line from Durg district. Acting under the Children Act 1986, a show cause notice has been issued to the Raj Food Products Fort, on finding child labor in this institution. At the same time, the institute has also been warned of strict legal action.
    It is noteworthy that Shri Alex Paul Menon, a labor commissioner who has conducted a comprehensive inspection campaign in the state for the eradication of child labor, has instructed all the assistant labor commissioners and labor officers of the state to inspect the institutions and check the child labor.