{"id":206364,"date":"2022-12-06T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=206364"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:35:03","slug":"assam-assembly-to-discuss-child-protection-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/assam-assembly-to-discuss-child-protection-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Assembly to discuss child protection issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nGuwahati, Dec 5 (PTI) Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Monday said child protection issues will be discussed in the House during the budget session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day will be fixed when all MLAs and UNICEF officials and other stakeholders will discuss issues being faced by children and ways to resolve those, he said while speaking at a function to distribute fellowship awards to journalists to commemorate World&#8217;s Children Day here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An amount of Rs 1 lakh will be earmarked for every legislator to create awareness about child protection and drug abuse in their respective constituencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) chairperson Sunita Changkakoti said child trafficking is the most inhuman problem faced by children in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We take suo motu cognisance of such cases but most of the accused manage to get bail which is a matter of great concern,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNICEF Northeast chief Madhulika Jonathan highlighted various problems faced by children in the region, particularly violence against them, and their educational and health issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine journalists were awarded the fellowship by UNICEF-Cotton University for covering stories on children&#8217;s issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Dec 5 (PTI) Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Monday said child protection issues will be discussed in the House during the budget session. A day will be fixed when all MLAs and UNICEF officials and other stakeholders will discuss issues being faced by children and ways to resolve those, he said while speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}