{"id":223781,"date":"2023-09-07T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=223781"},"modified":"2023-09-07T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:30:30","slug":"awareness-prog-on-pocso-act-held-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/awareness-prog-on-pocso-act-held-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness prog on POCSO Act held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AALO, 6 Sep:<\/strong> An awareness programme on Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act (POCSO), 2012 and Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, was organized in the DC&#8217;s conference hall here in West Siang district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy commissioner Penga Tato, who chaired the meeting, urged the authorities of all the private and government schools to engage women teachers as wardens of their girls&#8217; hostels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He asked the DDSE to ensure that the girls&#8217; hostels of the private schools are looked after by women teachers as wardens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the meeting, the DC urged the participants, including officers and school teachers to be aware of the POCSO Act and Sexual Harassment of Women in Workplace Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate Marphy Ete gave a detailed presentation on Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment in Workplace Act and the punishment for violators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate Karken Angu highlighted on POCSO related cases and punishments for the offenders. He said that incidents of sexual abuse against children generally occur at homes and institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was attended by departmental heads, administrative officers, police personnel, APWWS members and NGOs. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AALO, 6 Sep: An awareness programme on Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act (POCSO), 2012 and Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act, was organized in the DC&#8217;s conference hall here in West Siang district on Wednesday. Deputy commissioner Penga Tato, who chaired the meeting, urged the authorities of all the private [&hellip;]<\/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-223781","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\/223781","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=223781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}