Operation Muskan 3: Officials told to reach out to orphan children

Khammam: Everyone must stand for orphan children in the society and must work for their betterment, advised District Collector D S Lokesh Kumar.

The Collector chaired a meeting with officials of Police department, Child Protection Unit, Child Line, Child Welfare Committee along with the officials of Labour, Education, Medical and Child Welfare departments to discuss the implementation of Operation Muskhan-3, here at Technical Training and Development Centre in Khammam on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said the missing children were forcibly pushed into begging business. It is responsibility of everyone to give a better life to them by admitting them in the shelter homes.

“Many children are found collecting the waste and plastic things at railway and bus stations and on the road sides. Such children must be sent to Child Protection Centres after finding out their details by conducting a medical test apart from updating their details online in child track portals,” ordered the Collector.

Commissioner of Police Tafseer Iqbal said the Station House Officer must collect the details of missing children and child labourers and must update their details in child track portals along with their photographs which would become easy for their parents to identify them.

The top cop ordered the police officials to form special teams and conduct raids on shops, restaurants, hotels and at the shopping malls present in the city as part of the Operation to identify the child labourers, and rescue them.

ACPs Ganesh, Sridhar Reddy and Rakesh, District Medical and Health Officer K Kondal Rao, District Welfare Officer Vara Lakshmi, Child Protection Officer Vishnu Vandhana, District Child Protection Committee Chairman Prasad, Ajitha and the staff members of Child Line were present.