:: STATE CHILDREN'S BOARD ::


The Govt. of Haryana aims at providing opportunities for the mental, physical, emotional and educational development of the children so that they can realize their full potential.To focus on the need for coordinating all the activities relating to the needs of children and to provide a forum for this purpose, the Haryana Government has set up a new State Children’s Board vide Notification No. 51-SW(3)2006 Dated 8-2-2006.

 

(Extract from Haryana Government Gazettee, dated the 21st February, 2006)

HARYANA GOVERNMENT

SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT

Notification

The 8th February, 2006

 

No. 51-SW (3)-2006 - The Government of Haryana aims at providing opportunities for the mental, physical, emotional and educational de4velopment of the children so that they can realize their full potential. To focus on the need for coordinating all the activities relating to the needs of children and to provide a forum for this purpose. The Governor of Haryana is pleased to reconstitute the State Children’s Board, consisting of the following:-

1

Social Welfare Minister, Haryana,

 

Chairman

2

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Women and Child Development Department.

Vice Chairman

3

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Labour and Employment Department.

Member

4

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Rural Development Department.

Member

5

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Development and Panchyats Department

Member

6

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Public Health Department.

Member

7

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Industrial Training Department.

Member

8

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government Haryana, Social Welfare Department.

Member

9

Financial Commissioner and Secretary to Government Haryana, Education Department.

Member

10

Chairman, Haryana State Social Welfare Advisory Board, Chandigarh.

Member

11

Honorary Gen. Secretary, Haryana State Council for Child Welfare, Chandigarh.

Member

12

Director, Women and Child Development Department, Haryana

Member-Secretary

13

Secretary, State Red Cross Society, Haryana, Chandigarh.

Member

 

 

The functions of the Board will be as under:-

  1. To create and sustain public awareness regarding the need and rights of the children, especially the girl child.

  2. To get a plan of Action for the child prepared and implemented in Haryana, with special emphasis on the girl child.

  3. To co-ordinate and integrated the efforts made by different Government and private agencies, voluntary bodies, Public Institutions and other organizations engage in implementation of the programmes for Child Development.

  4. To review the progress made in the implementation of the State Plan of Action for the child and any other programme relating to children.

  5. To locate the gap in the existing services and suggest measures for eliminating such gaps.

  6. To suggest any changes needed in the priority according to different programme.

  7. To review the facilities / concessions given to the children by other department such as Education, Industrial Training, Health and Scheduled Castes /  Backward Classes Welfare Department with special emphasis on the benefits given to girl children.

  8. The terms of the Board will be upto December, 2010.

  9. The official members shall draw T.A and D.A from their respective departments.

  10. The Board shall ordinarily meet atleast once in a year and the Headquarter of the Board will be at Chandigarh.

 

 

 

Chandigarh :

The 13th December, 2005

DALIP SINGH,

Commissioner and Secretary to Government Haryana. Women and Child Development Department.