Complaint
filed to Child Welfare Committee to bring KISS Tribal school within ambit of
Juvenile Justice Act
Bhubaneswar:
KISS stands as most ignominious
institution with blatant violation of all laws and regulations and defying
direction of statutory bodies in respect of management of its tribal school in
Bhubaneswar. Though KISS management and its founder Sri Achyut Samant claims
housing 30,000 tribal children in KISS Tribal school, details of this figure is
not divulged to any State Govt. authority and not under RTI Act. The information about details
of tribal children is not available
with Department of SC and ST
welfare, women and Child Development
Department and Collector, Khurda which is the statutory authority to monitor functioning of tribal schools and hostels.
while inquiring into
functioning of KISS Tribal school on
complaint filed by Dr. Subas
Mohapatra, Human Rights Activist , the CWC team had found KISS not being
registered under JJ Act. on 8.8.2017,
the office of Child Welfare Committee,
Khurda had issued Directive to authority of Kalinga Institute of Social science, Patia
to obtain certificate of
recognition from the Collector, Khurda and Department of SC and ST Welfare. But astonishingly, that
organization has neither complied order of the CWC nor has the State Government
taken any action against KISS for not taking any steps against KISS for not
applying for certificate of recognition.
1. Presently,
in view of allegation of sexual abuse of minor girls against Good News India, a shelter Home run
by NGOs that has been running child care institutions in Dhenkanal district, a
public demand has been generated to verify registration of all the
organisations housing children in the state.
The State Government has also taken decision to conduct inquiry into the
registration of institutions running shelter homes, hostels housing minor girls and closely monitor
their activity. But the State Government is the biggest
culprit to mismanagement of these institutions which are exploiting tribal
children and using them for their narrow
vested interest. As per information obtained under RTI dated
13.11.18 in response to RTI query
about no. of institutions registered under section 41 of JJ Act within
jurisdiction of Khurda district, the PIO, Dept. of Women and Child Development has
provided list of 14 organisations
registered with Govt. But astonishingly,
the name of KISS, Patia, Bhubaneswar does not figure in the list.
Keeping it in view, 5.12.18. Complaint was filed by members in
Khurda District Child Welfare Committee seeking direction to KISS ( Kalinga
Institute of Social Science) Tribal School
under section 41 of the Juvenile
Justice ( Care and Protection of
Children) Act, 2015. As per Supreme Court direction, all the institutions whether run by a state government or voluntary organisations or NGOs
which are meant either wholly or partially for
housing the children in need of
care and protection , shall be
registered under section 41 of the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. A complaint
has also been filed to the
Collector, Khurda to take immediate steps
for registration of KISS tribal
school. Complainants who met Chairman
and Members of CWC, Khurda were Pradip Pradhan, sanjukta Panigrahi, Sudhir
Mohanty, Pratap sahu, Sachikant Pradhan, Ranjulata Mohapatra.
Pradip Pradhan
RTI Activist
M-9937843482
Date-7.121.8
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