The child panel and Bachpan Bachao Andolan had recently given Covid aid kits to all children shelters in the in anticipation of the third wave
JAIPUR: Expressing concern over the Covid cases in schools, the state child commission has written to the district education officer to submit a detailed report about the cases as well as the measures taken to prevent cases from increasing.
The panel has also recommended that online classes should be started immediately in the schools along with offline ones.
Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (RSCPCR) chairperson, Sangeeta Beniwal has expressed concern about the increasing cases of Covid among children in schools.
“After the second wave of covid, schools have started operating again and recently cases of children being corona positive are coming to the fore. We have taken cognisance of the Covid cases in Jayshree Periwal International School. The complete report has been asked of the same to the district education officer (headquarters) secondary, Jaipur.”
Beniwal also said that there is a need to start online classes keeping in view the increasing number of cases of Covid in schools. In this regard, a recommendation has been made by the child panel to the education department to start online classes without delay along with offline classes in schools so that the increasing cases of Covid in children can be curbed.
Recently in anticipation of the third wave of covid, the child commission along with Bachpan Bachao Andolan had given Covid aid kit to all the children shelters in the state. The kit contains 13 essentials like sanitisers, masks, oximeters, thermometers etc. Officials claimed that while similar kits had been distributed previously at some locations, now they were given to each shelter in order to curb the third wave of covid which might affect the children. A total of 170 kits have been distributed to the child care institutions in the state. These districts had been asked to set up adequate facilities to ensure that children infected with Covid can be treated effectively.
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