NCPCR portal ‘Bal Swaraj’

  • December 14, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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NCPCR portal ‘Bal Swaraj’

Subject – Polity

Context – Help children left homeless by pandemic: SC

Concept –

  • The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in furtherance to its function as a monitoring authority under section 109 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 and in view of the growing problem related to children affected by COVID-19, has devised an online tracking portal “Bal Swaraj (COVID-Care link)” for child in need of care and protection.
  • This portal of the Commission has been created with a purpose for online tracking and digital real time monitoring mechanism of children who are in need of care and protection.
  • The Commission has extended the use of this portal for tracking children who have lost both its parents or either of the parent during COVID-19 and provided a link under the name of “COVID-Care” for uploading of data of such children by the concerned officer/department on the portal.

To know about National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), please refer November 2021 DPN.

NCPCR portal ‘Bal Swaraj’ Polity