Lok Sabha Question No. 1310 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-06
Subject: Child Care Institutions
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Atul Garg

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1310

TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2026

## CHILD CARE INSTITUTIONS

## 1310. SHRI ATUL GARG :

Will the Minister of Women and Child Development be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the Child Care Institutions (CCIs) supported under the Mission Vatsalya in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh;
- (b) the current status of the sponsorship and foster care program for the vulnerable children in the said district;
- (c) the details of the measures being taken to rehabilitate the children living in street situations and prevent child begging at the traffic signals of the city;
- (d) the details of the functioning of the Child Welfare Committee and the Juvenile Justice Board; and
- (e) the details of the Government's initiative to track missing children using the 'TrackChild' portal?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a)  &  (b):   Mission  Vatsalya  scheme  is  a  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  (CSS)  which  is implemented through States/Union Territories (UTs) to deliver services for Children in Need of Care and Protection (CNCP) and Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) which include Institutional Care and Non-Institutional Care. Under the scheme Institutional Care is provided through Child Care  Institutions  (CCIs),  as  a  rehabilitative  measure.  The  programmes  and  activities  in Homes inter-alia include  age-appropriate  education,  access  to  vocational  training,  recreation, health care, counselling etc. Under the Non-Institutional Care component, support is extended for Adoption, Foster Care, After Care and Sponsorship. The primary responsibility of execution of the Act and implementation of Scheme lies with the States/UTs. In Financial Year 2024-25 164 CCIs  have  been  financially  supported  under  Mission  Vatsalya  Scheme  in  the  State  of  Uttar Pradesh including 2 CCIs in Ghaziabad district.

Support for non-institutional care including sponsorship and foster care programme has also been extended to Uttar Pradesh. District-wise data of beneficiaries under the scheme is not maintained centrally.

- (c) The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has launched a 'CiSS application' under the Baal Swaraj portal to help in the rehabilitation process of Children in Street Situations. (CiSS). This portal, developed by, NCPCR is a first-of-its-kind initiative in India to help children in street situations. The CiSS application is used for receiving data of children in street situations including children involved in begging from all the States and Union Territories, tracking their rescue and rehabilitation process.

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated a scheme 'SMILE -  Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise', which includes a sub -scheme 'Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of persons engaged in the act of Begging'. This scheme covers several comprehensive measures including welfare measures for persons who are engaged in the act of begging. The focus of the scheme is extensively on rehabilitation, provision of medical facilities, counselling, basic documentation, education, skill development, economic linkages and so on. Persons engaged in the act of Begging are to be covered under the scheme.

- (d)   The Ministry of Women and Child Development is the nodal Ministry for implementing the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (JJ Act, 2015), which is the primary legislation for ensuring safety, security, dignity and well-being of children. It defines standards of care and protection to secure the best interest of child.

Under  the  JJ  Act  2015  (Sections  27-30),  the  Child  Welfare  Committees  (CWCs)  have  been empowered to take decisions with regard to the children in need of care and protection, keeping their best interest in mind. They are also mandated to monitor the function of the Child Care Institutions  (CCIs).  Similarly,  the  Juvenile  Justice  Boards  are  empowered  to  take  decisions regarding the welfare of children in conflict with law (Sections 04-09). At the national and state level,  the  JJ  Act  provides  the  National/State  Commissions  for  Protection  of  Child  Rights  to monitor the implementation of the Act (Section 109).

- (e):  The  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development  has  launched  the  revamped  Mission Vatsalya Portal which is an integrated Digital platform for all the stakeholders related to child protection services. Mission Vatsalya portal is a technologically upgraded secure portal which provides digital working platform for various stakeholders across different levels at State and district. The earlier Khoya-Paya and TrackChild services have been brought under this unified portal.

The  key  features  of  Mission  Vatsalya  Portal  include  single  digital  platform  for  use  by  the Stakeholders i.e. State Child Protection Society, State Adoption Resource Agency at State level and District Child Protection Unit, Child Welfare Committee, Juvenile Justice Board, Special Juvenile Police Unit at District level and Child Care Institutions. The portal avoids duplication of work at grassroots level. It also ensures better monitoring through various MIS Dashboards and optimum utilization of resources for planning and implementation.

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