New Delhi, Mar 29 (IANS): The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has taken cognisance of the speech by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal regarding the proposed plan for street children who are being rescued by it, and has requested the Delhi government to provide information about the kids who are rescued from the streets and put at the child care institutions.

Kejriwal had posted a video message regarding the proposed plan for street kids and their rehabilitation.

The NCPCR said that it conducted four meetings with the Delhi government, but it didn't inform the commission about this.

"In the said speech, it has been stated that the children who are living on the streets are not being dealt with in a humanitarian way, and are rescued from streets and being placed in child care institutions (CCI). The children who are placed in the child care institutions are then running away from there due to lack of adequate facilities," read the letter written by NCRPC to the Delhi government.

The NCPCR said that keeping in view the serious issue of street children, which is also being monitored by the Supreme Court, it is concerned about the issues being highlighted for children staying on the streets and the child care institutions in Delhi.

"We have conducted four monthly meetings with all the states in the past five months and the Department of Women and Child Development, Delhi government, did not informed about this problem in CCIs in any of the meetings.

"The NCPCR would like your good offices to provide reasons for not informing about this serious issue of children running away from CCIs in Delhi in the monthly review meetings that are being taken by NCPCR with all the states," it said.

The NCPCR has sought information pertaining to the status of street children in Delhi at the earliest.