Ludhiana: Following allegations of sexual exploitation, the Child Welfare Committee visited a teenage house and checked its security measures on Sunday.
The committee member said, “Most CCTV cameras are installed at the entrance of the teenage house.
There are several cameras in the complex, but most of them do not work.
Because teenagers are submitted here, there is an urgent need to complete it with a new CCTV.” The panel plans to take it.
Some other initiatives, to prevent the incident.
The Chairperson of the District Child Welfare Committee, Gurjeet Singh Romana, “inmates will be separated now.
They will be collected separately from 14 years and above.
In addition, we also plan to squeeze them.
We have contacted a psychologist, who has retired Recently from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), to arrange counseling sessions of prisoners.
Regular counseling inmates will transfer the incident.
“” The new CCTV will soon be installed in the teenage house complex because of many non-functional cameras.
In addition, for that, for Channeling the energy from these teen prisoners in the right direction, the committee plans to start skills development training with the help of industrial training institutions.
The prisoners have been given moral support and encouraged to contact teenage home staff if they face all kinds of harassment, “he added.
Teen houses now accommodate 85 inmates, because 10 of the defendants ordered in the case of sodomy on November 12 have turned to Borstal Prison in the center of Ludhiana.