Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 20: Dakshina Kannada District  Children's Welfare Committee, entrusted with the authority to dispose off cases relating to the care, protection, treatment, development and rehabilitation of children, besides providing for their basic needs and protection of human rights, has through a press release, informed that the first sitting of the Children's Court of the committee and information programme under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, will be held at Sullia on Monday September 22.

The public information programme of the committee will be held from 10 am at the auditorium of the Sullia taluk panchayat on Monday September 22. People who work with children, representatives of organizations and institutions, anganwadi supervisors, teachers and representatives of children’s orphanages, are entitled to attend this programme, the release has said.

The sitting of the Children's Court of the Children's Welfare Committee will be held at the same venue, on that day from 2 pm to 4 pm. Complaints if any, about the violation of the rights of the juveniles, rehabilitation of orphans, exploitation of child labour, sexual harassment, adoption of children, minimum wages at work place, denial of education, children neglected due to family problems, child trafficking and selling apart from mental and physical torture of children, will be taken up for consideration. Through the release, the Children's Welfare Committee, formed by the government to provide justice to children, has requested the general public to get advantage of this opportunity to the maximum.