GHAR (GO Home and Re-Unite) Portal
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Overview
- News in Brief
- GHAR – GO Home and Re-Unite (Portal for Restoration and Repatriation of Child)
- National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Why in the News?
The Ministry of Women and Child Development developed the Track Child Portal which enables tracking of the missing and found children in all States/UTs including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, North Eastern States and Jharkhand.
News in Brief
- The Track Child portal is implemented with the support and involvement of various stakeholders namely Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Railways, State Governments/ UT Administrations, Child Welfare Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards, National Legal Services Authority, etc.
- Standard operating procedures have been issued for the TrackChild Portal.
GHAR – GO Home and Re-Unite (Portal for Restoration and Repatriation of Child)
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), has developed and launched a portal namely GHAR – GO Home and Re-Unite (Portal for Restoration and Repatriation of Child). The GHAR portal has been developed to digitally monitor and track the restoration and repatriation of children according to the protocol.
TrackChild portal
- The Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
- TrackChild portal has been designed and developed adhering to the guidelines provided in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and Model Rules 2007.
- Advisories have been issued to all States and UTs including the Director General of Police of all States & UTs and other stakeholders regarding the implementation of the TrackChild portal.
- The TrackChild portal is also integrated with the CCTNS or Crime and Criminal Tracking & Network Systems of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- It allows interoperability in terms of matching F.I.Rs of missing children with a database of TrackChild to trace and match missing children by the concerned State/UT police.
- One component of the TrackChild Portal has Khoya-Paya where any citizen can report for any missing or sighted children.
- The Software also provides facilities for mapping of vulnerable locations, i.e. those which have a large number of children reported missing so that corrective action can be taken in these areas.
- Monitoring by senior officers of the action being taken by the Police to trace the missing children has also been streamlined through the software.
The following are the salient features of the portal
- Digital tracking and monitoring of children who are in the Juvenile Justice system and have to be repatriated to another Country/State/District.
- Digital transfer of cases of children to the concerned Juvenile Justice Board/Child Welfare Committee of the State.
- It will help in speedy repatriation of children.
- Where there is a requirement for a translator/interpreter/expert, a request will be made to the concerned State Government.
- Child Welfare Committees and District Child Protection Officers can ensure proper restoration and rehabilitation of children by digitally monitoring the progress of the case of the child.
- A checklist format will be provided in the forms so that the children who are being hard to repatriate or children who are not getting their entitled compensation or other monetary benefits can be identified.
- A list of Government-implemented schemes will be provided so that at the time of restoration the Child Welfare Committees can link the child with the schemes to strengthen the family and ensure that the child remains with his/her family.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
- National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR was established in March 2007.
- It is under the Act of Parliament the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005.
- The commission’s mandate is to ensure that all laws, policies, programs and administrative systems conform to the vision of the rights of the child as enunciated in the Constitution of India as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- A child is defined as a person falling in the age group of 0 to 18 years.
- The commission ensures children and their well-being, strong institution-building processes, respect for local bodies and decentralization at the community level and greater social concern in this direction.
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