Tag: Child Welfare Committee

Intensifying its search for missing boy wonder Budhia Singh, the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Khurda district today served a notice to movie producer Subhamitra Sen regarding the matter and asked him to reply within three days

Khurda/Angul: Two infants were found dead while another was rescued in critical condition from two different places in the State on Tuesday. As per reports, Police recovered the bodies of two newborn boys from the backside of a hotel at Pitapalli on NH-16 in Khurda district Tuesday evening. Though the exact reason behind the death […]

Kendrapara: The Child Welfare Committee of Kendrapara district has initiated a probe to find out if a destitute woman had sold her newborn son to another woman for Rs 2,000. The mother of the infant had said she had handed over her one-day-old son yesterday to another woman, who was her neighbour, on the assurance […]

Malkangiri: As many as 22 minors including girls were rescued by the Childline officials while allegedly being trafficked to outside the State in Malkangiri district on Thursday. All the children belonged to Kurumapali village under Mathili block in the district, reports said. Acting on a tip off, officials of the Malkangiri Childline intercepted three vehicles […]

Keonjhar: Officials of the Childline and Child Welfare Committee Monday foiled a bid to marry off a minor girl in Tangara village of Keonjhar district. According to sources, the minor girl of Chhatrakana village was allegedly being married off to a person from Tangara village at a temple, when the officials of Childline Anandapur unit […]

Raipur/Bhubaneswar: Twenty-six child labourers were rescued from the plant of popular biscuit brand Parle-G here, police said Saturday. A government task force on child labour had received a tip-off that minors were employed at Parle-G factory in Amasivni area, said Vidhansabha Police Station House Officer (SHO) Ashwani Rathore. The task force raided the factory Friday […]

Berhampur: Four child labourers were rescued from a hotel in Ganjam district on Sunday, police said. The children hailed from Bihar and efforts were on to send them back to their families in Sitamarhi district, they said. Acting on a tip-off, a raid was carried out at the hotel and the children, in the age […]

Balasore: Blowing apart the popular belief that ‘family’ is the ideal place for child’s development in his early days, a woman was caught on camera brutally thrashing her own 7-year-old grandson in Odisha. After being informed, the CWC officials rescued the minor boy and also took his grandmother into custody. The shocking incident has been reported […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 82 children from Odisha, including 21 girls, have been rescued from other states under the ‘Operation Paree-III’ initiative, an official said here on Wednesday. Under ‘Operation Paree-III’, a total of eight teams comprising officers of Odisha Police and officials of the Women and Child Development (WCD) Department had gone to various […]