Kathmandu. The Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee under the House of Representatives has directed the government to immediately shift the child correction home in Rupandehi.
Concluding that the existing building was congested and unsuitable for the operation of the child correction centre, the committee directed the concerned ministries to shift the missing building of the District Coordination Committee (DCC), Rupandehi.
In the meeting of the committee held on Sunday, committee president Samikshya Banskota pointed out the need to immediately shift the existing child reform home based on the suggestions received during the on-site monitoring of the sub-committee. She also urged the government to make arrangements to hand over the building where the child reform home is currently housed to the District Coordination Committee, Rupandehi.
The committee has also directed the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minority and Social Security to implement the decision immediately by coordinating with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration.
The committee has also urged the government to be serious to ensure safe, systematic and child-friendly environment for children by improving the management of child reform homes.
In the meeting, Minister for Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minority and Social Security, Sita Badi, expressed the government’s commitment to implement the implementable suggestions included in the report of the sub-committee in a phased manner.
According to her, children are overcrowded in the correctional home, lack of physical infrastructure, education, health, nutrition, psychosocial services, lack of skilled human resources, management of people above 18 years of age, legal aid, rehabilitation and regular monitoring, among others.
Minister Badi said that the Ministry has taken these suggestions seriously and the issues that can be implemented will be implemented in a phased manner with priority. She said that the government was committed to improving the service and management of the child reform home, protection of child rights, effective implementation of juvenile justice and fulfilling the constitutional and legal responsibilities of the state.
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