REGULAR WORKSHOPS ought to be organized in faculties to create consciousness amongst college students in addition to academics on little one abuse, DMK chief Tiruchi Siva mentioned on Tuesday throughout Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha.
Expressing concern over the rising variety of little one abuse circumstances, Siva mentioned that in line with the National Crime Records Bureau Report, between 2018 and 2020, round 40,000 circumstances have been registered below the POCSO Act.
“These are registered circumstances, and there are lots of unregistered circumstances as nicely. The quantity declined in 2020 in the course of the Covid interval, however now, it has began rising once more,” he mentioned.
“Children are very vulnerable in our society and this sort of sexual abuse against them impacts them very much physically and mentally and sometimes leads to traumatic memories which the children may carry throughout their lives.”
Siva mentioned the vast majority of the colleges in India both shouldn’t have a mechanism to take care of such conditions, or in the event that they do, a major majority of the scholars should not conscious of the regulation in any respect.
“So, this is a very serious issue and the absence of mechanism has to be addressed very seriously… There is a need for immediate intervention to make it mandatory for every school that regular workshops are held for both, students and teachers, and awareness must be created,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
