{"id":206382,"date":"2022-12-06T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=206382"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:57:22","slug":"assam-assembly-to-discuss-child-protection-issues-during-budget-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/assam-assembly-to-discuss-child-protection-issues-during-budget-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Assembly to discuss child  protection issues during budget session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, 5 Dec: Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Monday said child protection issues will be discussed in the House during the budget session.<br \/>\nA 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.<br \/>\nAn amount of Rs 1 lakh will be earmarked for every legislator to create awareness about child protection and drug abuse in their respective constituencies.<br \/>\nAssam 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.<br \/>\n&#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.<br \/>\nUNICEF Northeast chief Madhulika Jonathan highlighted various problems faced by children in the region, particularly violence against them, and their educational and health issues.<br \/>\nNine journalists were awarded the fellowship by UNICEF-Cotton University for covering stories on children&#8217;s issues. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, 5 Dec: 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 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206382","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=206382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}