Despite the plethora of issues concerning the rules, eligibility, and utility, the government finally on Wednesday interviewed the applicants for the posts of five-Member National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chairperson.

 

Reportedly, as many as 64 candidates had applied for some of the vacant posts. Of all those interviewed, only 08 were selected. The panel of selected candidates was later sent to the competent authority for the final selection and appointment of  04 of them as Members.

 

Priyank Kanoongo was appointed this month as the chairman of the NCPCR. Yashwant Jain is currently serving as its Member Laws, related to children and Dr. R G Anand as Member- Child Psychology or Sociology.

 

NCPCR has a total of five posts of members. These are Member- Laws related to children; Member- Child Psychology or Sociology; Member- Education; Member- Child Health, Care, Welfare and Development and Member- Elimination of child Labour or Children in Distress.

 

The Commission was set up in March 2007 under the Commissions of Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.

 

The Commission's mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, Programmes, and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with the Child Rights objectives as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.