LS passes Protection of Child Rights (Amendment) Bill

New Delhi, Dec 13 (UNI) The Lok Sabha today passed by voice vote the Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2006, providing that the chairperson of the Commission would be appointed on the recommendations of a three-member Select Committee to be constituted by Women and Child Development Ministry.

Both the Treasury and the Opposition benches thumped their desks after the Bill was passed unanimously in the House.

Earlier, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury, while thanking all the members, said it was the first time that the MPs had contributed towards recognising children as an independent identity.

She called upon the civil society and all other departments associated with children, be it education or the medical faculty, to ensure that the children infected with the HIV or affected by it were not discriminated.

''It is the duty of all of us to also ensure that the practice of female foeticide comes to end. Mere passing the law will not do,'' she said.

Earlier, Ms Priya Dutt (Congress) and Alok Kumar Mehata (RJD), J M Arun Rashid (Congress) and Khairati Lal Verma (BJP) made a strong case for all possible steps by the government to put an end to the continuing atrocities against children.

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