By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Monday said that an NGO will now be roped in to impart “better services” in the form of informal and vocational education to women and children in the ten state-run homes for juveniles and others in the capital.
Dikshit, after the cabinet meeting, said: “It has been decided to involve an NGO to provide better services of non-formal education along with vocational training for the children and women staying in the homes run by the department of women and child development”.
“It has been observed that in the children’s homes run by the WCD department of the Delhi government, many children above the age of seven or eight years who have had little or no schooling cannot be admitted in class one of any regular school simply because they don’t fulfil the age criterion.”
“The educational programme offered by the NGO, Shubhakshika, will thus enable such children to get certificates from the National Institute of Open Learning and thereafter join regular schools,” the chief minister said.
The decision is expected to benefit women and children put up in 10 such homes – Juvenile Home for Boys I & II, Alipur, Juvenile Home for Boys I & II Lajpat Nagar, Juvenile Home for Girls I & II, Nirmal Chhaya, Observation Home for Boys, Kingsway Camp, Observation Home for Girls, Nirmal Chhaya, Bal Sadan, Timarpur, and Women Institutions in Nirmal Chhaya Complex.
This NGO is being engaged initially for a period of one year.
Similarly, an NGO, Delhi Brotherhood Society will be roped in for better management and operation of the Old Age Home at Lampur.
Dikshit said that earlier involvement of NGOs in taking care of an old age home in Dwarka had been fruitful.