CHILDLINE India Foundation has been taken up as a
project of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
This Ministry facilitates networking with all other
Ministries of the Government of India (Transport,
Labour, Railways, Health, Social Welfare, Information
and Broadcasting, etc.) Besides this, the Ministry
provides substantial funding for the CHILDLINE service
across the country. The Ministry collaborated with
CHILDLINE India Foundation and initiated the National
initiative for Child Protection (NICP) whose focus
is sharing an understanding of issues related to children
with the Allied Systems (the police, transport, health,
railways, labour department, DOT, the Juvenile Welfare
Boards etc.) and provides the space for the Allied
Systems to make their systems more child-friendly.
At the city level several dialogues have been initiated
with the local government systems and core committees
for child protection have been formed for child protection
have been formed in every state. The Ministry uses
data generated by CHILDLINE in policy and legislation
formulation.
CHILDLINE dialogued with the local telephone department
in Mumbai which resulted in the Department of Telecommunications
allotting a national toll free number 1098 for children
in difficult circumstances through CHILDLINE. Through
CHILDLINE the DOT has taken telephones to places where
telephones were not accessible to people.
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