Suniel, ManaShetty, Sophie at charity fundraiser : PIX
February 5, 2015
Union Ministry for Health & Family Welfare launched National Deworming Initiative
February 12, 2015
Aiming to make easier the identification of ‘missing’ children across the state, the Maharashtra government is mulling to create a website where details of such inmates along with their photographs will be uploaded so that they can be reunited with their families.
The website, which is yet to get a URL, will be linked with the Central government’s Ministry of Women and Child Development official website.
“There are currently about 92,000 children residing in 1,108 reform homes across the state. These children have either been caught doing prohibited labour work or have been seen begging on streets. Even children who stay on footpaths are usually sent to reform homes,” an official from the state Women and Child Welfare department told .
“If these children are brought to Maharashtra from far flung places of the country, it becomes very difficult for the child’s parents to track their kids and it is difficult for us too if these children do not have the nec
