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    Mission Vatsalya

    Mission Vatsalya which was formerly known as Integrated Child Protection Scheme acts as a roadmap to achieve development and child protection priorities aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).It lays emphasis on child rights, advocacy and awareness along with strengthening of the juvenile justice care and protection system with the motto to ‘leave no child behind’. There were three schemes being implemented under the Ministry namely,

    1.  Programme for Juvenile Justice for Children in need of care and protection, and Children in conflict with Law.
    2.  Integrated Programme for street children.
    3. Scheme for assistance to homes for children (Shishu Greh).

            All the three schemes were incorporated in a single centrally sponsored scheme called the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). The ICPS was implemented by the Ministry of Women & Child Development since 2009-2010. The scheme was then renamed as “Child Protection Services” Scheme in 2017. The CPS Scheme has been now subsumed under Mission Vatsalya from 2021-22 onwards.

    A. Service Delivery Structure under the Mission: 

    1.State Child Protection Society:

    The State Child Protection Society (SCPS) established under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, to ensure the implementation including mapping, planning of Mission Vatsalya scheme.

    Status of staff positions is as below
    Sr. No Post Total Filled Vacant
    1 Programme Manger 02 01 01
    2 Programme Officer 04 01 03
    3 Account Officer 01 00 01
    4 Accountant 01 01 00
    5 Accounts Assistant 01 00 01
    6 Assistant cum Data Entry Operator 04 01 03
    Total 13 4 9

    2.State Adoption Resource Agency (SARA):

    SARA coordinates, monitors and develops the work related to non-institutional care including adoption, Sponsorship & Foster Care and After Care.

    Status of staff positions of SARA is as below
    Sr. No Post Total Filled Vacant
    1 Programme Manger 01 01 00
    2 Programme Officer 01 01 00
    3 Programme Assistant 01 00 01
    Total 3 2 1

    3. District Child Protection Units (one in each district):

    The District Child Protection Unit will function under the overall supervision of District Magistrate in ensuring service delivery and care and protection of children in the district.

    Status of staff position of DCPUs is as below
    Sr. No Post Total Filled Vacant
    1 District Child Protection Officers 22 12 10
    2 Protection Officer (Institutional Care) 22 15 07
    3 Protection Officer (Non-Institutional Care) 22 15 07
    4 Legal cum Probation Officer 22 16 06
    5 Counsellor 22 14 08
    6 Social Worker 44 27 17
    7 Accountant 22 12 10
    8 Data Analyst 22 12 10
    9 ADEO 22 13 09
    10 Outreach Worker 44 30 14
    Total 264 166 98

    B. Institutional Care:

    Institutional services provided to the children through Child Care Institutions (CCIs).  The Child Care Institutions as envisaged under Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 empowers the State Government either by itself or in collaboration with voluntary organizations to setup homes for reception and residential care of children in need of care and protection (CNCP) and Children in Conflict with Law. These CCIs supported/established for their care, treatment, education, training, development and rehabilitation. At present, 69 Child Care Institutions.

    Details of the homes are as under
    Sr. No Type of Home Number of Homes Total Capacity Current Strength
    1 Children’s Home 47 2573 1351
    2 Observation Homes 03 125 177
    3 Special Home 01 50 15
    4 Place of Safety 03 250 409
    5 Open Shelter Home 09 225 222
    6 Specialized Adoption Agency 06 120 127
    Total 69 3343 2301

    C. Non-Institutional care Services: 

    Non-Institutional services consists rehabilitation and reintegration of children through Adoption, Sponsorship & Foster Care and After Care in a family and community based alternatives for care. The details of deliverables are as under:-

    C.1. Adoption:

    means the process through which the adopted child is permanently separated from his biological parents and becomes the lawful child of his adoptive parents with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities that are attached to a biological child. Since 2013-14, total 645 children (528 In country-adoption & 117 Inter-country adoption) have been placed in Adoption.

    Year-wise detail is as under
    Sr. No Year In-country Adoption Inter-Country Adoption Inter-Country Adoption
    1 2013-14 33 08 41
    2 2014-15 28 06 34
    3 2015-16 31 26 57
    4 2016-17 50 04 54
    5 2017-18 39 08 47
    6 2018-19 46 16 62
    7 2019-20 75 11 86
    8 2020-21 32 05 37
    9 2021-22 48 07 55
    10 2022-23 51 11 62
    11 2023-24 52 07 59
    12 2024-25 43 08 51
    Total 528 117 645

    C.2. Sponsorship & Foster Care:

    Sponsorship means  supplementary support, financial or otherwise is provided to the families to meet the medical, educational and developmental needs of the child and Foster Care means placement of a child for the purpose of alternate care in the domestic environment of a family other than the child’s biological family. Under both schemes financial assistance of Rs. 4000/- per month per child is provided. Total 6452 children (6122 Sponsorship and 330 Foster Care scheme) have been enrolled under the schemes since 2013-14.

    Year-wise detail is as under
    Sr. No Year Sponsorship Foster Care Total
    1 2013-14 2 1 3
    2 2014-15 53 3 56
    3 2015-16 546 121 667
    4 2016-17 609 133 742
    5 2017-18 1444 40 1484
    6 2018-19 1078 31 1109
    7 2019-20 958 0 958
    8 2020-21 74 0 74
    9 2021-22 223 0 223
    10 2022-23 122 0 122
    11 2023-24 538 1 539
    12 2024-25 286 0 189
    Total 6122 330 6452

    C.3. After Care

    After care is a programme for children without family or other support who leave institutional care after they attain 18 years of age to sustain themselves during the transition from institutional to independent life. 71 youths have been placed under this programme in last financial year years. Financial assistance of Rs. 4000/- per month per child is provided as per the order of CWC

    Statutory Support Services

    i) Existing Child Welfare Committee: (22 CWCs) Constituted under Section 27 of Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 consists of one Chairperson & 04 members. Presently, in all 22 districts of the state, CWCs are constituted:

    Details thereof are as under
    Sr. No Post Total Filled Vacant
    1 Chairperson 22 09 13
    2 Members 88 25 63
    Total 110 34 76

    ii) Existing Juvenile Justice Board: Presently, in all 22 districts of the state, JJBs are constituted:

    Details thereof are as under
    Sr. No Post Total Filled Vacant
    1 Principal Magistrate 22 22 0
    2 Members 44 32 12

    E. Training and Capacity Building

    State Child Protection Society as mandated in Rule 89 of Juvenile Justice Model Rules is also responsible for organizing training and capacity building programmes for the stakeholders. Since 2012

     

    status of training programme organized for stakeholders is as under
    Name of Institute SCPS DCPU CWC JJB CCI Other Officers Children of CCIs Total Participants covered
    National Institute of Public Cooperation (NIPCCD) 22 62 22 16 75 1 (SCPCR) 1 4600
    State Child Protection Society 14 33 19 14 18 16 (SJPU, Education, Health) – 3200
    Haryana Institute of Public Administration 4 9 4 1 2 1 (DPOs) – 1630
    Chandigarh Judicial academy 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 760
    Non Government Organizations (KSCF, CRY, Save the Children etc.) 4 11 5 4 6 2 – 550