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Subject:	CWC Newsletter
Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2014 07:02:14 +0000
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The Concerned for Working Children Newsletter Issue 1 August 2014 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Raid and Rescue:  To be or not to be Venkatesh (name changed), decided to work during his summer holidays. His widowed mother, the sole breadwinner of his large family of two sisters and a grandfather was struggling to make ends meet with her domestic labour job. Venkatesh, who would be joining class 9th the coming year and would be turning 14 shortly, felt that he had to do his bit for the family. He would at least endeavour to pay his own school fees. With the consent of his mother, he found work with a juice parlour where the owner would also provide him with lunch. Often he would have his lunch along with the owner’s family. His work was light and the resulting salary was extremely useful. On one balmy afternoon the Labour Department suddenly conducted a raid on the parlour based on an anonymous tip. Before Venkatesh could understand what was happening, he was hauled out of the shop and shut in a car by a strict looking government official who would give him no explanation but asked him a lot of questions. The parlour owner called his aunt who quickly brought his education related papers to prove that he was studying. This was to no avail. She was rudely asked, if she could prove she was his aunt and then Venkatesh was carried away and institutionalized within the Juvenile Justice system. Read more CWC joins the committee reviewing the Panchayat Raj Act in Karnataka A Committee has been set up by the Government of Karnataka for the purpose of recommending amendments to the Karnataka Panchayati Raj Act, 1993 under the chairmanship of Shri.K.R.Ramesh.Nandana Reddy, the Convenor of the Gram Panchayat Hakkottaya Andolana (GPHA) and Director, Development, The Concerned for Working Children, is one of the 21 members who are part of this Committee. The review is being undertaken as an introspection on the implementation of the Act currently. The task of the Committee is to examine whether the concept of Gram Swaraj as envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi and the intention of Shri. Rajiv Gandhi to transform the Panchayati Raj system in India as a unit of self governance ensuring the democratic participation of women, the backward and the depressed in the administration of local governance, are adequately realized in the letter and in practice. In particular, the Committee, is looking at the devolution of the 3Fs (funds, functions and functionaries) and the maximum extent of ‘endowment’ necessary for the Panchayats to govern and manage all development schemes and the machinery for economic and social justice. It is also giving special emphasis on operationalising the 50% reservation of women beyond the law by provisioning them with support structures which not only augment their knowledge and skills but also allow for their greater, more involved participation. The Committee has suggested the process of Activity Mapping to ensure that parallel structures of governance are recognized and all connected laws and institutional mechanisms are harmonised with the arrangements that strengthen the panchayats as envisaged in the Constitution. Read more Follow us on Twitter | Connect with us on Facebook | Forward to Friend  Copyright © 2014, The Concerned for Working Children, All rights reserved. Address: 303/2, L B Shastri Nagar Vimanapura Post, Bangalore 560017, Karnataka, India. Tel: 0091-80-25234611, Fax: 0091-80-25235034. unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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