Lok Sabha Question No. 2090 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-29
Subject: Crime against Children
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Arun Kumar Sagar, Rattan Lal Kataria, Ramcharan Bohra

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2090

TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.07.2022

## CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN

2090:  SHRI ARUN KUMAR SAGAR: SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA: SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) The  number  and  nature  of  complaints  lodged  with  the  National  Commission  for Protection  of  Child  Rights  (NCPCR)  regarding  child  exploitation  along  with  action taken thereon during the last three years and current year, State/UT-wise;
- (b) Whether nodal officials have been appointed in the states to check maltreatment of children, if so, the details thereof and the extent to which they have been successful to check the same;
- (c) The  details  of  various  schemes  being  run  for  the  safety  of  children  involved  in hazardous jobs/situations;
- (d) The amount spent under each schemes during the last three years, State/UT-wise;
- (e) Whether  any strategy has been chalked out by the Union Government  in consultation with State Governments to deal with crimes against children and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) Whether  Commission  for  Women  is  also  playing  any  role  to  prevent  juvenile delinquency and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a):  As  per  information  received  from  the  National  Commission  for  Protection  of  Child Rights (NCPCR), NCPCR has received 7595 complaints across the country relating to child abuse / exploitation such as child sexual abuse, child marriage, child labour, physical and mental harassment under RTE Act, 2009, harassment under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 etc. during the last three years, i.e., 2019-20 to 2021-22 and  the  current  year  2022-23  (till  June,  2022).  The  State/UT-wise  details  are  given  in Annexure-I.

The NCPCR has taken cognizance of these complaints under section 13 (1) (j) of the  Commissions  for  Protection  of  Child  Rights  Act,  2005  and  sent  to  the  appropriate authorities in the concerned States/UTs for necessary action.

(b)  to  (d):  The  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development  is  implementing  a  centrally sponsored Scheme namely Mission Vatsalya Scheme through the State/UT Governments for supporting children in difficult circumstances. The scheme inter-alia provides for setting up  of  Child  Care  Institutions  (CCIs)  by  the  States/UTs  either  by  themselves  or  in association  with  voluntary  organisations.  The  primary  responsibility  for  implementation  of the  scheme  rests  with  the  State  Governments/  UT  Administrations.  The   grant  released under the erstwhile Child Protection Scheme [CPS]-Mission Vatsalya during last 3 years is Annexeure-II.

Further, as per information received from the Ministry of Labour and Employment (M/o  L&E)  the  Government  has  enacted  the  Child  Labour  (Prohibition  &  Regulation) Amendment  Act,  2016  which  came  into  force  w.e.f.  01.09.2016.  The  Amendment  Act provides for complete prohibition of work or employment of children below 14 years in any occupation and process and adolescents in the age group of 14 to 18 years in hazardous occupations and  processes. The  amendment  also  provides  stricter punishment  for employers for violation of the Act and has made the offense as cognizable.

The Government is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to eliminate child labour and has taken comprehensive measures which include legislative measures, rehabilitation strategy, providing  right  to  free  education  and  general  socio-economic  development  so  as  to eliminate the incidence of child labour. The details of statutory and legislative measures, rehabilitation strategy and education are as under:

- i. Government has enacted the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016 which came into force w.e.f. 1.9.2016.
- ii. Framing of Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Central Rules.
- iii. Framing  of  model  State  Action  Plan  enumerating  action  points  to  be  taken  by respective State Governments and circulation of the same to all Chief Secretaries.
- iv. The Government is implementing the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme for  rehabilitation  of  child  labour  which  has  now  been  subsumed  under  Samagara Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Scheme.

The  details  of  funds  allocated  and  released  under  the  National  Child  Labour  Project (NCLP) scheme from 2019-20 to 2021-22 are as under:

| (Rs. in Crore)   | (Rs. in Crore)   | (Rs. in Crore)                     | (Rs. in Crore)   |
|------------------|------------------|------------------------------------|------------------|
| S. No.           | Year             | Budgetary allocation (Final grant) | Fund utilized    |
| 1                | 2019-20          | 78.00                              | 77.47            |
| 2                | 2020 -21         | 49.00                              | 41.19            |
| 3                | 2021-22          | 20.00                              | 18.45            |

- (e) To safeguard children against sexual abuse and sexual harassment, Government has enacted  the  Protection  of  Children  from  Sexual  Offences  (POCSO)  Act,  2012.  The  act defines a child as any person below the age of 18 years.   The Act was further amended in 2019 to introduce more stringent punishment including death penalty for committing sexual crimes  on  children,  with  a  view  to  deter  the  perpetrators  &  prevent  such  crimes  against children.

Further  the  POCSO  Rules,  2020  were  also  notified  by  the  Ministry  to  protect  the children from exploitation/violence and sexual exploitation.

- (f) The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights is working to prevent juvenile delinquency, not the National Commission for Women.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN PART (A) OF REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2090 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.07.2022 ASKED BY SHRI ARUN KUMAR SAGAR: SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA: SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA INDICATING STATE/UT-WISE NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS RECEIVED IN NCPCR RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE / EXPLOITATION DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS AND THE CURRENT YEAR 2022-23 (TILL JUNE, 2022).

| Sr. No   | States/UTs                           |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   2021-22 |   2022-23 |   Total |
|----------|--------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| 1        | Andaman & Nicobar Islands            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         4 |       4 |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh                       |        76 |        11 |        18 |         7 |     112 |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                    |        32 |         2 |        10 |         0 |      44 |
| 4        | Assam                                |        21 |        22 |        20 |         1 |      64 |
| 5        | Bihar                                |       220 |       127 |       122 |        42 |     511 |
| 6        | Chandigarh                           |         4 |         0 |         3 |         2 |       9 |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh                         |       119 |        27 |        12 |         2 |     160 |
| 8        | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 9        | Delhi                                |       203 |       104 |       104 |        26 |     437 |
| 10       | Goa                                  |         2 |         1 |         1 |         6 |      10 |
| 11       | Gujarat                              |        74 |        21 |        22 |         3 |     120 |
| 12       | Haryana                              |       161 |       113 |       120 |        17 |     411 |
| 13       | Himachal Pradesh                     |         9 |         8 |         6 |        14 |      37 |
| 14       | Jammu                                |         7 |         5 |         5 |         1 |      18 |
| 15       | Jharkhand                            |       180 |        56 |        41 |        10 |     287 |
| 16       | Karnataka                            |        73 |        34 |        23 |        10 |     140 |
| 17       | Kerala                               |        19 |        26 |        11 |         4 |      60 |
| 18       | Ladakh                               |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 19       | Lakshadweep                          |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 20       | Madhya Pradesh                       |       177 |        80 |        89 |        28 |     374 |
| 21       | Maharashtra                          |       142 |        57 |        47 |        15 |     261 |
| 22       | Manipur                              |         1 |         1 |         1 |         0 |       3 |
| 23       | Meghalaya                            |        18 |         2 |         3 |         0 |      23 |
| 24       | Mizoram                              |        56 |         0 |         0 |         0 |      56 |
| 25       | Nagaland                             |         2 |         1 |         1 |         0 |       4 |
| 26       | Orissa                               |        67 |        26 |        31 |         4 |     128 |
| 27       | Puducherry                           |         1 |         4 |         6 |         0 |      11 |
| 28       | Punjab                               |        66 |        25 |        26 |         5 |     122 |
| 29       | Rajasthan                            |       151 |       133 |        97 |        29 |     410 |
| 30       | Sikkim                               |        14 |         1 |         0 |         0 |      15 |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu                           |       126 |        96 |        78 |        10 |     310 |
| 32       | Telangana                            |       116 |        43 |        37 |        14 |     210 |
| 33       | Tripura                              |         7 |         8 |         2 |         0 |      17 |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh                        |       821 |       821 |       910 |       421 |    2973 |
| 35       | Uttarakhand                          |        33 |        15 |        16 |         0 |      64 |
| 36       | West Bengal                          |        84 |        29 |        47 |         8 |     168 |
| 37       | Other                                |        14 |         8 |         0 |         0 |      22 |
|          | Total                                |      3096 |      1907 |      1909 |       683 |    7595 |

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN PART (B)-(D) OF REPLY TO LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  2090  TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  29.07.2022  ASKED  BY  SHRI  ARUN  KUMAR  SAGAR:  SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA: SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA INDICATING STATUS OF GRANT RELEASED AND  UTILIZED  UNDER  ERSTWHILE  CHILD  PROTECTION  SCHEME  [CPS]-MISSION  VATSALYA DURING LAST 3 YEARS

(In Lakh)

| Sl. No.   | Name of the              | 2019-20 2020-21   | 2019-20 2020-21   | 2021-22         |
|-----------|--------------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
| Sl. No.   | State                    | Amount released   | Amount released   | Amount released |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh           | 1373.53           | 1827.84           | 476.46          |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh        | 1174.11           | 293.55            | 487.92          |
| 3         | Assam                    | 3363.95           | 3159.17           | 864.69          |
| 4         | Bihar                    | 1405.39           | 2203.71           | 2203.21         |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh             | 2098.74           | 2281.81           | 1870.35         |
| 6         | Goa                      | 19.63             | 129.9             | 3.43            |
| 7         | Gujarat                  | 2146.27           | 2590.93           | 697.24          |
| 8         | Haryana                  | 2217.99           | 2391.14           | 931.24          |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh         | 1607.40           | 1457.39           | 1453.90         |
| 10        | Jammu & Kashmir          | 1225.16           | 1490.55           | 1929.69         |
| 11        | Jharkhand                | 1845.80           | 1425.26           | 1248.02         |
| 12        | Karnataka                | 3290.45           | 2897.87           | 4252.11         |
| 13        | Kerala                   | 1519.74           | 1135.84           | 607.45          |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh           | 3052.72           | 3531.26           | 3057.44         |
| 15        | Maharashtra              | 2449.63           | 3433.13           | 5467.46         |
| 16        | Manipur                  | 3102.72           | 3468.9            | 3606.76         |
| 17        | Meghalaya                | 2241.71           | 2014.36           | 1005.91         |
| 18        | Mizoram                  | 2530.43           | 2243.71           | 1957.58         |
| 19        | Nagaland                 | 2085.95           | 2125.64           | 1842.69         |
| 20        | Orissa                   | 3541.66           | 3302.54           | 4019.15         |
| 21        | Punjab                   | 722.00            | 558.41            | 172.57          |
| 22        | Rajasthan                | 3195.88           | 3221.96           | 1542.75         |
| 23        | Sikkim                   | 662.51            | 612.81            | 807.59          |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu               | 14915.36          | 9636.91           | 7669.71         |
| 25        | Telangana                | 1726.38           | 431.61            | 3850.65         |
| 26        | Tripura                  | 879.61            | 1075.65           | 977.46          |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh            | 4277.72           | 5235.63           | 4553.91         |
| 28        | Uttarakhand              | 918.58            | 712.37            | 507.90          |
| 29        | West Bengal              | 2815.10           | 4375.63           | 3970.45         |
| 30        | Andaman & Nicobar Island | 329.62            | 282.97            | 7.50            |
| 31        | Chandigarh               | 0.00              | 169.21            | 162.83          |
| 32        | Dadra & Nagar Haveli     | 193.97            | 55.96             | 142.98          |
| 32        | Daman & Diu              | 141.79            |                   |                 |
| 33        | Delhi                    | 972.86            | 656.76            | 794.51          |
| 34        | Lakshadweep              | 0.00              | 0                 | 5.05            |
| 35        | Ladakh                   |                   | 153.18            | 126.17          |
| 36        | Puducherry               | 501.96            | 393.97            | 271.50          |
| Total     |                          | 74546.32          | 70977.53          | 63546.23        |

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