To,
Mrs. K. Bharathi,
Senior Audit Officer,
Office of the Principal Accountant General
(General & Social Sector Audit)
Andhra Pradesh &Telangana state
HYDERABAD
SUB:
- Submission of response to your
letter-Reg.,
REF:
- PAG (G&SSA)/SGS-40/JJ(C&P) 2015-16/AE
No.43, DT: 24-06-2015
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The Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has not formulated any rules though
it is empowered to make rules under Sec 68 of JJ Act, 2000 and has not issued any
memo for application of JJ Model rules, 2007 conferred by the Ministry of Women
& Child Development, Govt. of INDIA. Hence 2003 rules are applying and in
any such circumstances wherever necessary the CWCs are following 2007 model
rules.
In continuation, the state Government has not appointed any
coordinator for CWCs under any provision of JJ (Care and Protection of
Children) Act, 2000 amend 2006. So, we don’t know who is coordinator in the
shelter home and the existing CWC is appointed in Mar 2014 only so, we don’t
know about the details of sittings in the year 2012.
1. As per criteria, it is prescribed that, the CWC may conduct
up to 12 sittings per month based on the necessity otherwise government shall
may have financially lose its budget allocated for the said cause. Hence, it is
restricted up to 12 sittings but not 12 sittings.
2. Rule 24 (5) of JJ Model Rules, 2007 the CWC members including
chairperson quorum is sufficient with ¾ attendances are per year.
3. As mentioned above, we don’t have any written correspondence
by the authorities about coordinator for CWC. Now only we came to know about
this issue and we are keeping records with the support of Data Entry Operator
(DEO).
4. With regard to quorum for sittings, the quorum is assembling
with Chairperson and two members and rest of the two members are not attending
to sittings. This information directly informed to the Director and also Deputy
Director of Dept of Juvenile Welfare, Correctional services and Welfare of
Street Children, Govt. of A.P over phone and also through letter correspondence
but no action or appropriate directions received by the said authorities.
5. We
are conducting sittings of CWCs in division wise in our district as per the
resolution taken during our sitting conducted on 5th March 2014.
According to the adhered resolution by the members under 14 A, we have started
conducting CWC sittings at Govt. Children Home for Boys at Eluru, Church of
Christ Children home at Bhimavaram and at the shelter home in Kovvur. While the
things were going on a like, we were temporarily obstructed conducting division
wise sittings as mentioned above in the month of April 2014 due to heavy hot in
summer. Again on 9th Jun 2014, we have had a meeting and proposed to
re-start the division wise sittings like earlier and were agreed to the
resolution accordingly. At this moment, 2 women members of CWC are favorable to
division wise sittings where as two male members in the CWC are proposed
against to the resolution and rejected to continue division wise sittings with
a strong demand. At that moment, I have supported being a chairperson of CWC
and as per Sec 30 (3) of JJ Act, 2000 amend 2006 to continue with the division
wise sittings as per earlier resolution in view of accessibility and
availability of CWC to maximum possible children in need of care and protection
services across the district.
In this connection, we
are conducting division wise sittings on every Monday and Saturday at Eluru, on
every Wednesday at Kovvur. Later, during the sitting on 26th Nov
2014, the members expressed the need of conducting sitting at Jangareddy gudem
where there are tribal populations. And hence, a resolution taken with 4 members’
quorum for conducting a sitting on every Saturday and are conducting in the
same way accordingly.
..
6. CWC is court as per the definition of Sec 2(1) Legal
Services Authorities Act and is not maintained any suggestion box. Home staff are maintaining
complaint and suggestion box for children in the home.
This is for your information,
With best regards,
Child Welfare Committee
West Godavari District
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