Lok Sabha Question No. 4280 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-28
Subject: Children Homes
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT DEPARTMENT OF EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILIFIES (DIVYANGJAN)

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4280 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.03.2017

## Children Homes

## 4280: SHRI RA VINDRA KUMAR PANDEY: Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any proposal to set up children homes for the development and care of mentally retarded children in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the number of such children homes set up by the Government during each of the last three years and the current year; State-wise including Jharkhand;
- (c) whether the Government is aware of reports indicating that the mentally retarded children are not getting proper care in the children homes in some States; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto?

ANSWER

## (MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT) (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

- (a) & (b) The Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) for the improvement in the well being of children in difficult circumstances\_ Under ICPS, financial assistance is provided to States/UTs inter-alia; setting up and maintenance of various types of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) including Children Homes; Additional financial support is provided to the   institutions  having  children with needs, including those who or physically challenged. A separate home for such children is set up in a situation where there are number of children  with  special  needs in a district or group of districts: The State/UT  wise   details is annexed, The Ministry has been requesting the State Governments/UT Administrations from time to time to identify and register ail CCIs under relevant provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000/2015,and set up functional inspection and other Committees to ensure that children in all the CCIs receive the best of care, and are not subject to any kind of neglect: for, special large
- (c) (d) Two (2) incidents of mismanagement of institutions being run for the mentally retarded children have come to the notice of the Ministry. The Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD), a statutory body under the Ministry mandated to take steps to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities, took up the matter with the concerned authorities for corrective action including personal visit to one of the places. two

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Annexure

| S. No.   | States UTs       | Unit/Home for Children with Special needs   |
|----------|------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 1        | Gujarat          | 2                                           |
| 2        | Himachal Pradesh |                                             |
| 3        | Haryana          |                                             |
| 4        | Jammu & Kashmir  |                                             |
| 5        | Karnataka        |                                             |
| 6        | Kerala           |                                             |
| 7        |                  |                                             |
| 8        |                  |                                             |
| 10       | Puducherry       |                                             |
| 11       | Rajasthan        |                                             |
| 12       | Sikkim           |                                             |
| 13       | Tripura          |                                             |
| 14       | Tamil Nadu       |                                             |
| 15       | Uttar Pradesh    | 19                                          |
| 16       | West Bengal      | 23                                          |
|          | Total            | 94                                          |