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Display Child Helpline Number in all school buses: Udupi DC


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Udupi, Feb 26, 2021: Udupi Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesha has said that  the ChildLine  Helpline Number 1098  should be prominently displayed in all private school buses in view of the   safety of the children. All educational institutions should be issued instructions in this regard, he said  while participating in a progress review meet at his office on February 25, Friday.


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School vehicles too  should  have a complaint box  for children, the Deputy Commissioner said adding    the meetings of the women and child protection committes formed at Gram Panchayat level should be  held  once in three months. The complaints  lodged in the meeting should be  reviewed  and a report filed, the DC added.

The DC also instructed officials not to allow children inside the Malpe port in order to prevent them from being employed as child labourers entrusted with the task of picking fish.