Missing Children’s Bureau to put up cradles at public places where parents can leave their unwanted children.
Unwanted children of poor parents, who cannot look after them, need not be abandoned. The Missing Children’s Bureau (MCB) of the department of women and child development will be setting up cradles to curb the number of children being abandoned at railway stations and dustbins.
According to an official with the MCB, “Parents who are unable to look after their newly born infants now do not have to dump them in dustbins or kill them. The aim of this project is that every child is looked after and does not have to grow up on the streets or be killed because his/her parents do not want them.”
The bureau plans to put up cradles in parks, railway stations, bus stations, hospitals and major junctions, where parents can leave their unwanted children, said the official.
“Such cradles will be set up in major districts and cities in the state, where children tend to be ‘dumped’,” he added. Apart from Bangalore Urban and Rural districts, cradles will be set up in 18 districts such as Bagalkot, Hassan, Tumkur, Kolar, Mysore, Mandya, Ramanagar, Yadgir, Chitradurga, Raichur, Bidar, Bellary, Gulbarga, Davangere, Dharwad, Haveri, Shimoga and Kolar.
“These are the places where the MCB has its offices and staff in each district, which will coordinate to make sure the children have a home,” said the official, adding that suitable NGOs that are already working with children will be given the responsibility of coordinating with the MCB in the project.
The official added that such a project already exists in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. “We felt the need for such a project in the state, considering that a number of infants are found in the garbage in cities like Raichur, Mysore and, to a large extent, in Bangalore too. As a start, we are beginning the project in all the cities where the MCB has an office.”
Although the project was inaugurated recently at Gadag, it currently has no funds. “We are looking at IT companies and so on to sponsor the cradles that we will put up. The infants will then be handed over to the CWC, who will, in turn, take care of the education of the child,” he said.
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