The State Cabinet will soon approve the proposal for the formation of a commission for the protection of child rights in West Bengal. The structure for the seven-member West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights has been finalised. It has been formulated on the basis of the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act,2005, said a senior state government official. The proposal was mooted in the wake of an increase in child abuse incidents in the state. Vivek Joshi,joint secretary of the Union ministry of women and child development,wrote to the state government a couple of months ago requesting it to expedite the process of setting up the commission in West Bengal. The file regarding the setting up of the commission lay at the state finance department for almost a year during the Left tenure. Sources at Writers Buildings said the Chief Minister had sent back the file to the women and child development department seeking clarifications over appointment,qualification and removal of the chairperson of the commission and its members. Sikkim,Assam Bihar Chattisgarh,Maharashtra,Delhi,Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh,Orissa,Punjab and Rajastan have already set up the child rights commission.
