SC Directives on Rehabilitation of ‘Children in Street Situation’

On 24^th April, 2022, the Supreme Court directed the States and Union Territories (UTs) that have not yet framed their own policies to rehabilitate children in street situation (CISS).

About the Directives: States and UTs could follow the National Commission for Protection of Child Right’s (NCPCR) standard operating procedure (SOP) until they devised their own.

• Web portal of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) needs to be updated with the required material by concerned authorities and that this needs to be done without fail.
• The suggestions which were made by NCPCR need to be implemented by governments of states and UTs, subject to certain modifications made by state governments.
• NCPCR is directed to conduct periodical reviews preferably once a month to monitor the implementation of the suggestions.
• The Court directed the district magistrates in every state to rope in the special juvenile police units, district legal service authorities (DLSA) and other voluntary organization to identify the children who are living on streets either with or without families and those that beg during the day but at night return to the nearby slums.