Have to Give Street Children in India Access to Education says Dia Mirza – News18 story
Monday | 27th February 2017
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India has to get her children off the streets and need to give them access to education and an identity, actress-producer Dia Mirza says.
A survey conducted in 2016 by Bal Raksha Bharat in Lucknow, Mughalsarai, Kolkata-Howrah, Patna and Hyderabad enumerated 84,563 children living on the streets.
Dia, also the Artist Ambassador for Bal Raksha Bharat – an NGO and child rights organisation, attended the launch of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Care and Protection of Children in Street Situations.
The document was released by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in collaboration with Bal Raksha Bharat here on Tuesday.
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