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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsOn an average at least three children are rescued from streets in the city every day this year.Making a power-point presentation during the district advisory committee half-yearly meeting on juvenile justice (care and protection of children) Act 2000, the Juvenile Aid Police Unit (JAPU) officials said while 553 children were rescued in the city from January to June this year, only 338 children were rescued during 2011. They said of the total number of children rescued, 428 were found wandering on streets. Some of them had deserted their homes because they did not like going to school or they were orphans. “Some children from neighbouring areas like Tiruvallur, Avadi, Pattabiram come to the city to see the beach while a few others left their homes due to poverty or family dispute. This year, we have motivated our unit to rescue at least one child a day,” an official said.Close to 55 children found begging and 68 others selling various things on streets in Chennai were rescued in the last six months. Two units of JAPU visit crowded areas, including Egmore, Central, Marina Beach, Broadway and T Nagar, in plain clothes and when they see any child alone wandering on streets, they rescue them.Unit members try to gather as much information as possible from the rescued child and try to hand them over to the parents after a stern warning or they would be produced before the child welfare committee after a report was prepared by the probation officer, police said. “We also prepare an FIR for every child rescued,” said an official.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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On an average at least three children are rescued from streets in the city every day this year.

Making a power-point presentation during the district advisory committee half-yearly meeting on juvenile justice (care and protection of children) Act 2000, the Juvenile Aid Police Unit (JAPU) officials said while 553 children were rescued in the city from January to June this year, only 338 children were rescued during 2011. They said of the total number of children rescued, 428 were found wandering on streets. Some of them had deserted their homes because they did not like going to school or they were orphans. “Some children from neighbouring areas like Tiruvallur, Avadi, Pattabiram come to the city to see the beach while a few others left their homes due to poverty or family dispute. This year, we have motivated our unit to rescue at least one child a day,” an official said.

Close to 55 children found begging and 68 others selling various things on streets in Chennai were rescued in the last six months. Two units of JAPU visit crowded areas, including Egmore, Central, Marina Beach, Broadway and T Nagar, in plain clothes and when they see any child alone wandering on streets, they rescue them.

Unit members try to gather as much information as possible from the rescued child and try to hand them over to the parents after a stern warning or they would be produced before the child welfare committee after a report was prepared by the probation officer, police said. “We also prepare an FIR for every child rescued,” said an official.