JAIPUR: The child commission will formulate a proposal for the welfare of children who were orphaned during the pandemic and send it to the state government.
The commission has put rehabilitation of these children on priority and has written to all the districts to share their plans at the earliest.
The commission has already received a list of more than 1,500 children and more are being added almost daily, claimed officials.
Rajasthan state commission for protection of child rights chairperson Sangeeta Beniwal said, “We have asked for the list of orphaned children from the districts and not just of those who have lost their parents due to Covid but others as well.
We have asked for the measures taken by them for rehabilitation of the children.
While the education and health department has expressed its willingness for this, we are also looking at setting up shelters in the existing government homes where there are very few children especially girls whose parents have died.
Once the proposal is finalised, we will send it to the government so that it can be deliberated upon.” The commission will also look at providing for the children who have lost one parent or been abandoned by their families due to various reasons.
Officials claimed that they will incorporate government policies like Palanhar scheme and others to facilitate the process.
The state government had declared that it would look after children orphaned during the pandemic, irrespective of whether their parents died due to Covid or some other ailment.
A few days ago, the Central government had also declared to provide care for children orphaned due to Covid and launched the Bal Swaraj Portal wherein states were asked to provide details of the children.