The Supreme Court on Monday directed the States and Union Territories (UTs) that have not yet framed their own policies to rehabilitate children in street situation (CISS) to immediately implement the Standard Operating Procedure for Care and Protection of Children in Street Situation 2.0 framed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for the time being.
A Bench led by Justice L. Nageswara Rao said these States and UTs could follow the NCPCR’s standard operating procedure (SOP) until they devised their own. Children could not be made to suffer for the delay on the part of the States and UTs to form their rehabilitation policies, the court stated.
Once individuals schemes were formed, the court noted, they have to be forwarded to the NCPCR.
