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Thiruvananthapuram: The matter relating to bringing of 588 children from Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal to orphanages in the state rocked the Assembly on Monday with the Opposition staging a walk out in protest of the government stand on the issue.
Replying to an Opposition member, State Social Justice Minister M.K. Muneer said until last year, all the orphanages in the state functioned under laws framed in 1960.
"It was last year, we revised the act and now we are in the process of setting right all the documents of all children in the orphanages," he said.
"Please do not forget that the officials working in the state appointed child welfare committee and the board that controls all the orphanages were all appointed when you were in office. We assure that laws will now be strictly enforced," Muneer told the opposition.
CPI-M deputy leader in the assembly Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, who raised the issue, said: "We all agree to run an orphanage is a social service but none should be allowed to do undesirable activities in the name of running an orphanage."
According to government statistics, there are 1,387 destitute homes in the state, of which 87 are not licensed to operate. These homes have around 54,000 inmates.
Defending the government stand, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that the issue should not be generalised. "Please do not ever generalise the functioning of orphanages because there might be black sheep and for that the concerned agencies will do their job. We should not make comments without knowing facts," Chandy said in the state assembly.
Unhappy with the chief minister's statement, Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan asked if everything was very clean, then how come central minister Maneka Gandhi described the incident as a child trafficking.
"Sorry, I am not Maneka Gandhi's counsel and cannot answer for her," Chandy shot back. Unhappy with the reply, Achuthanandan led the entire opposition to stage a walk out.
With IANS inputs
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