India News: NEW DELHI: As thousands of children lost either both or one of their parents during Covid pandemic and many are facing bleak future, the Supreme Court.
What the State Can Do to Identify and Assist Children Orphaned by COVID-19
Itâs unfortunate that because of historic neglect, we have to start building a basic child protection and care system in the middle of a national catastrophe.
Children of migrant workers sit at a bus station, as they wait to board a bus to return to their villages, after Delhi government ordered a six-day lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 20, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
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Hidden behind the numbers of the dead in Indiaâs second wave of coronavirus are the survivors. Thousands of them are children, who have suddenly lost one or both parents and live now in the grip of sadness, uncertainty and fear. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has reported that as of May 29, 1,742 children have lost both parents and 7,464 have lost one.
Indian govt and NGOs at odds over Covid-19 orphan data
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Orphaned children at an orphanage in India. Photo: Alamy
Apex court takes up cause of hapless children, who face the threat of being uprooted from their familial surroundings
Hundreds of Indian children have become orphans overnight because of the second and lethal Covid-19 scourge.
Though India’s Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has estimated that 577 children have been orphaned due to Covid-19 since April 1, the figure is only “the tip of an iceberg”, social activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have maintained.