60,000 children going missing in India every year a big concern: CJI Thakur

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today assured Nobel Peace Laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan founder Kailash Satyarthi that despite the shortage of judges and other challenges faced, judiciary will continue to be committed, concerned and conscious towards children’s cause.“We should deliberate whether the problem in tackling the issue of missing and trafficked children, is a lack. Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today assured Nobel Peace Laureate and Bachpan Bachao Andolan founder Kailash Satyarthi that despite the shortage of judges and other challenges faced, judiciary will continue to be committed, concerned and conscious towards children’s cause. This consultation is one of crucial endeavour towards creating a robust child protection response system for the prevention of trafficking of children and their effective rehabilitation, and related issues The two-day Workshop was organised by the All India Legal Aid Cell on Child Rights together with National Legal Services Authority, Delhi State Legal Services Authority and Bachpan Bachao Andolan, is an initiative to establish appropriate mechanisms for the rehabilitation and repatriation of children and to ensure the mainstreaming of child survivors into a safe and productive life. The participants would include the Member Secretaries of the State Legal Services Authorities, officials of the Government Departments, police officials, Chairpersons and Members of Child Welfare Committees, Members of Juvenile Justice Boards, officials of District Child Protection Units, NGOs etc The objective of the consultation is to focus on streamlining the process of rehabilitation and Repatriation of missing and trafficked children by: Identifying the current gaps and challenges in inter-agency and interstate coordination for the facilitation of rehabilitation and repatriation of missing and trafficked children.