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Jharkhand commission recommends closure of 35 shelter homes

  •   Sat, Oct 06 2018 03:19:07 PM

Ranchi, Oct 6 (IANS): The Jharkhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Saturday recommended closure of 35 shelter homes, including Nirmal Hriday run by the Missionaries of Charity.

The recommendation comes in the wake of an inquiry into allegations that shelter homes run by non-government organisations in the state were involved in the illegal sale of children.

The allegations, which surfaced in June, said that Nirmal Hriday was involved in selling four children to childless couples.

Ranchi Police had arrested a nun and an employee of Nirmal Hriday.

The Commission had initiated a probe into 126 shelter homes in the state after the allegations first surfaced.

The Commission's Chairperson Arti Kujur had formed three teams, one of which was led by her.

"Based on the documents recovered from the shelter homes, the Commission has recommended closure of 35 shelter homes and 24 shelter homes have been asked to improve their condition" Kujur told reporters here.
  

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Sat, Oct 06 2018

    It looks like a large number of vulnerable children (either orphans or children of destitute) will be pushed out to the streets in Jharkhand.

    The nuns may have "sold" four, but they certainly kept thousands off the streets!

    Obviously the Government did not pay the nuns one paisa for the services they provided. How are the nuns expected to pay their bills?

    Instead of making good use of the services provided by the nuns, the bankrupt Government of Jharkhand is out to terminate the golden goose!

    Amazing to note that India is so determined to go backwards!

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  • Mohan Prabhu, Mangalore (Kankanady)/Ottawa, Canada

    Sat, Oct 06 2018

    what does "sold" mean in this context? If the new adoptive parents offered money as donations, it does not seem right nor fair to call the transaction a "sale". There might be a good legal ground to contest the findings, especially if the so called "sale" occurred in a fraction of cases. The focus should be on the treatment and protection which the shelters provided.

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  • Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    Sat, Oct 06 2018

    If the nuns ran the shelters as a money-spinning business, they would challenge the allegations (that the children were sold) in court.

    Since they are running them like a genuine social service, they will, I am sure, accept the decision of the Government and close the shelters.

    In actual fact, the nuns annoyed Maneka Gandhi earlier when she, as the Central BJP Minister, introduced certain rule changes which were against the values the nuns held dear. So the nuns stopped certain services. Maneka was terribly annoyed.

    So anything happening to the nuns in the BJP ruled states should be seen from Maneka's dispute with the nuns.

    Regardless, it is a terrible situation for the orphans and the children of the destitute.

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  • Harold D'cunha, Mangalore, India.

    Sat, Oct 06 2018

    Mangalurian, Mangaluru

    For your kind information, the nuns have given the orphan children for adopting to the childless parents. Might be the nuns have failed to do the documents and procedures. Do not use the wrong word called sale here. The orphanage might have received donation. Still the Church in Jharkaland is fighting it court for wrongfully victimizing the orphanage run by nuns.

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