Promises on Hold On March 25 this year, the government cleared a bill for establishing the National Commission for Children. With its ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), India had committed itself to creating a statutory, independent commission to serve as a monitoring body for rights assured to children as per the Constitution, the national policy for children (1974) as well as the CRC. In recent years, successive Indian governments have passed a slew of measures aimed at ensuring a child
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