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ITANAGAR, 12 Jun:<\/strong> The women & child development (WCD) department, in collaboration with Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), conducted a three-day training programme here on ‘Automation and integration of Child Helpline-1098, Women Helpline-181 and emergency response support system (ERSS)-112 on 7, 10 and 12 June.<\/p>\n The programme comprised theory and hands-on sessions for the call takers of the WCD control room (WCD-CR), the Child Helpline, the district child protection unit (DCPU) and the one-stop centres, and officials of the WCD department, the State Child Protection Society, and the State Hub for Empowerment of Women.<\/p>\n “As per Mission Vatsalya guidelines of the union WCD ministry, the WCD department is to execute a 24\/7 helpline service for children, in coordination with state and district functionaries, which will be integrated with the ERSS-112 helplines of the union home affairs ministry,” the department informed in a release, adding that “100 percent fund is provided by the central government for implementing the Child Helpline in the state.”<\/p>\n Arunachal Pradesh, it said, is one of the first 10 states\/UTs selected by the union WCD ministry in the first phase to operationalise the WCD-CR.<\/p>\n The WCD department has set up the WCD-CR in Itanagar, with technical support from the C-DAC, and a trial run has also been conducted successfully, it said.<\/p>\n “The Child Helpline at the level of the DCPU is also to be set up shortly in all the districts,” it added.<\/p>\n Once they are made operational, the WCD-CR, the CHL and the DCPU will be providing 24\/7 helpline service for children across the state, and will attend to any kind of emergency, non-emergency and information calls made by children, or by any person on behalf of children.<\/p>\n “Till date, Childline services were available only in Itanagar, Namsai and Roing, which were run by the partner NGOs of Childline India Foundation,” the department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 12 Jun: The women & child development (WCD) department, in collaboration with Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), conducted a three-day training programme here on ‘Automation and integration of Child Helpline-1098, Women Helpline-181 and emergency response support system (ERSS)-112 on 7, 10 and 12 June. The programme comprised theory and hands-on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218265","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=218265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}