Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani on Sunday said that child care homes have helped seven lakh children across the country in the last nine years even as she asked these institutions to look into the infrastructure gaps present in their respective areas.
Addressing a regional symposium on ‘Child Protection, Safety and Child Welfare’, attended by members of child welfare committees and officials from child care institutions, Ms. Irani asked the committees to visit child care homes and review the cases of older children who could be made free for adoption at the earliest.
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