Child Welfare: Mind Map for UPSC Exam

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Why it is Important

India is a young nation with more than 39 per cent of the country’s population is Children according census 2011.
Recognised by policy-makers as a supreme national asset, children deserve the best in national investment, for their survival, development opportunity, security and dignity.
What is done for them today will determine the pace, substance and character of national progress.
The status and condition of children is thus the surest indicator of rights-based development.

Constitutional Provisions and policies

National Plan of Action for Children 2016

A child is any person below the age of eighteen years.
Childhood is an integral part of life with a value of its own.
Children are not a homogenous group and their different needs need different responses, especially the multi-dimensional vulnerabilities experienced by children in different circumstances.
Policy aims for Reducing Infant Mortality Rate and Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate and also Reducing Malnutrition among children.
Policy also aims at Achieving 100% civil registration of births and Universalisation of early childhood care and development and quality education for all children achieving 100% access and retention in schools, including ECCEs.
Complete abolition of female foeticide, female infanticide and child marriage and ensuring the survival, development and protection of the girl child.
Securing for all children all legal and social protection from all kinds of abuse, exploitation and neglect.
Complete abolition of child labour with the aim of progressively eliminating all forms of economic exploitation of children
The focus of the NPAC is to reach and serve to the “Last Child First”. This is a commitment to give first rank to the children who are most vulnerable due to gender, socio-cultural and economic or geographic exclusion.

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