"As you may be aware that Child Begging (sic) and Child Labour are prohibited u/s 76 and u/s 79 respectively of the JJ Act 2015. The NCPCR has been holding discussions with the CWCs, Delhi Police, NGOs and ChildLine in the last month to curb the menace. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Tuesday sent a letter to the Delhi government seeking an action plan to curb the menace of child-begging on the streets of the capital. Jain added that recently concerns of a begging syndicate was brought to the notice of the Delhi Police. The government of NCT of Delhi to make an action plan at all the three levels, namelypre-rescue, rescue and after-rescue of the children," read the letter.

Source: dna July 21, 2016 03:01 UTC