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NCPCR Statement to Fight Child Labour and Begging
Recently, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has identified 50 religious places to carry the interventions in order to ensure zero tolerance towards child labour. Highlights Shri Ram Janmabhoomi and Taj Mahal have also been included in the list of 50 religious places. The NCPCR will took up the intervention to eliminate ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2021
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: begging • Child labour • Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act • Child labour in India • Child Trafficking • NCPCR
Railways propose to Decriminalise Begging
The Ministry of Railways has proposed to decriminalise begging on trains or railway premises as part of an exercise to decriminalise or rationalise penalties under the provisions of the Railway Act, 1989. It also compounds the offence of smoking by levying spot fine and dropping all charges or action against the person involved. Key provisions ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Topics: 1989 • begging • Delhi High Court • Indian Railway • Ministry of Railways • Railway Act
Delhi High Court decriminalises begging in the national capital
Delhi High Court has declared 25 sections of Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 which have been extended to Delhi, as “unconstitutional”. With this, it has struck down legal provision criminalising begging in national capital. The court’s order came on PILs which had sought decriminalisation of begging in capital and beggar by challenging provisions of ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Topics: begging • Bombay Prevention of Begging Act • Delhi High Court • National • National Capital