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JAIPUR: The child commission has drafted the SOP for an intensive campaign against child begging across the state and the same has been sent to the Chief Minister in a bid to ensure that all the nodal agencies can be asked to follow their roles as designated.
Two months back, the commission had run a short campaign in Jaipur though the results of the same were not as per the expectations.
“After the initial campaign, we decided to prepare a SOP regarding the specific roles of the agencies involved and recently we sent it to the CM with a request that he should instruct the departments to follow the same so that we can collectively stop children from begging on the streets”, said Sangeeta Beniwal, chairperson, Rajasthan state commission for protection of child rights (RSCPCR).
The SOP was drafted after the initial campaign did not give the expected results and it was found that more coordination was required between states and while children were being rescued successfully, their rehabilitation continued to be irregular which would also be an area of focus in the coming days.
One of the steps for eradication would be to that employment would be provided by surveying the beggars by linking them with skill training programmes which would solve economic problems and help in eradicating begging. Various NGOs are also involved in the campaign to raise awareness about the same. The campaign is following the concept of exhortation followed by rescue and rehabilitation in case required.
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