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What are the measures taken by the government to protect the children?
Answer in Brief
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Solution
- The child is considered an important national asset.
- The future of a nation depends on how its children mature and develop.
- So protection of children from all kinds of exploitation and abuses has become the main objective of our society.
- There are laws in India protecting the rights of children.
- Right to Education Act:
Article 21A provides that the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children aged six to fourteen years. - The Child Labour Act (Prohibition and Regulation Act 1986):
It provides no child who has not completed 15 years of age can be employed. - The Juvenile Justice Act 2000 (Care and Protection of Children):
This Act tries to protect children deprived of adequate care and to reform the children by adopting the child-friendly approach. - POCSO A I 2012:
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act regards the best interest of the child as being of paramount importance in every state.
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