 bill no 160 of  2014 the  children  protection  bill,  2014by shrimati supriya sule, mp a billto provide for protection of children from exploitation, domestic violence, trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment and kidnapping and for matters connected therewith be  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-fifth year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the children protection  act, 2014(2) it extends to the whole of indiashort title, extent and commencement5(3) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appointdefinitions2  in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government of that state and in all other cases, the central government;(b) "child" means a boy or a girl who has not attained the age of eighteen years;(c) "children home" means an institution or home established or certified assuch by the appropriate government for the purposes of this act;(d) "street children" means children with unknown parentage or abandoned orvagabond children including neglected and destitute children who generally live on pavements or in hutments or slums or at railway platforms or bus stop; and5(e) "prescribed" means prescribed  by rules made under this actrights of a child3 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force,every child shall have the right to—(a) adequate means of livelihood;10(b) protection and security of life against exploitation and physical and mentalviolence;(c) free education and vocational training; (d) access to means of free and fair development of personality; and (e) free access to highest standard of health and nutrition154 the appropriate government shall conduct yearly survey of street children in thearea under its jurisdictionannual survey of street children5 (1) the appropriate government shall establish or cause to be established suchnumber of children homes as it may deem necessary for the purposes of this actestablishment of children homes20(2) the children homes established under sub-section (1) shall provide free of costboarding and lodging and such other facilities to the street children, as may be prescribedsetting up of special police posts6 (1) the appropriate government shall set up special police posts to deal exclusivelywith the cases of missing children and crimes against children including exploitation, domestic violence, trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment, sale or kidnapping25(2) the number of special police posts shall be set up in accordance with the populationof a state and in such manner as may be prescribedmaintenance of records7 the appropriate government shall maintain a record of complaints regarding themissing, kidnapped and abducted children in the area under its jurisdiction8 (1) the appropriate government shall establish such number of special courts, asmay be necessary, for efficient disposal of cases of crimes against childrenestablishment of special courts30(2) the special court shall dispose of a case within a period of six months from the dateof filing of the case9 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by lawin this behalf, provide such sums of money to the state governments, as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this actcentral government to provide moneys to the state govenments3510 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in forceact to have overriding effect11 the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other law for the time being in forceact to supplement other lawspower to make rules12 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this act510(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement of objects and reasonschildren are the future of any country it is the duty of the state to provide a healthy environment to ensure that every child is able to live a dignified life unfortunately, in our country there have been numerous cases of ill treatment and exploitation of children this situation worsens when a child does not have any guardian to take care of him the gruesome nithari serial killings case calls for concerted action on the part of the government to prevent such crime against the children there is a need for concerted effort to be made by the government as well as society to have in place a faster action-oriented police machinery, vigilant media and speedy exemplary punishment to the offenders by the courts to deter the offender from committing offences against childrenthe human rights commission in one of its reports have stated that nearly 45,000children go missing every year in the country of these, majority cases missing children remain untraceable for the reason they are either pushed in trafficking or engaged as bonded labour therefore, a proper coordination among the government agencies, police and nongovernmental organizations working for protection of children is urgently required in order to tackle the growing crimes against childrenthe bill, therefore, seeks to provide for—(i) securing certain basic rights to children;(ii) conducting of an yearly survey of homeless and street children; (iii) establishment of children homes for homeless and street children with allbasic facilities;(iv) setting up of special police posts to deal exclusively with the cases of missing children and crimes against children; and(v) establish special courts for speedy disposal of cases of crimes against childrenhence this billnew delhi;supriya  sulenovember 12, 2014 financial  memorandumclause 4 of the bill provides for an yearly survey of street children clause 5 provides for establishment of children homes with all basic facilities for street children clause 6 provides for setting up of special police posts to deal exclusively with the cases of crimes against the children clause 8 provides for establishment of special courts for speedy disposal of cases of crimes against the children clause 9 provides for central government to provide moneys to the state governments for carrying out the purposes of the bill the bill therefore, if enacted will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is likely to involve the recurring expenditure of about rupees one thousand crore per annuma non-recurring expenditure of rupees ten crore is also likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 12 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character lok  sabha———— a billto provide for protection of children from exploitation, domestic violence, trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment and kidnapping and for matters connected therewith————(shrimati supriya sule, mp)gmgipmrnd—2874ls(s3)—04122014