Move to shift ChildLine to Ministry of Home Affairs draws flak
The Hindu
The proposal to shift Childline 1098, the national helpline for children, from the administrative control of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) to Ministry of Home Affairs, has drawn flak from child rights activists in Tamil Nadu.
ChildLine 1098 is an initiative for rescuing and assisting children in distress. It is operated by the ChildLine India Foundation, which is a nodal agency of the Ministry of WCD. However, Union Minister Smriti Irani, on Monday, said that after this shift, police personnel, instead of social workers, would handle the calls made to 1098. The Union Minister said that the move was intended to make the State as the interface and to preserve data sensitivity. Following a report on this in The Hindu, Dharmapuri MP S. Senthil Kumar, also raised objections about the move in the Parliament. He said that children would have inhibitions speaking to the police and wanted the helpline to remain with Ministry of WCD.
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