The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has developed an application called 'MASI' (Monitoring App for Seamless Inspection) for real-time monitoring of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across the country.

This app aims to ensure effective and efficient inspection of CCIs as provided under the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 which was later amended in 2021.

It allows unified inspections by various authorities, including Child Welfare Committees (CWCs), State Inspection Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs), and State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs)

The Mission Vatsalya Scheme supports the infrastructure and financial needs of setting up CWCs in each district to ensure their effective functioning.

A total of 4,628 inspections have been completed on the MASI portal by 32 States and Union Territories as communicated by the Central Government lately to the Rajya Sabha.

Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani informed the House in a written reply to the query raised by a member about the real-time portal to monitor childcare homes and how it would inform budgetary changes on infrastructural lapses.

The app is linked to the monitoring portal where automatic reports are generated. It serves as a platform for inspections of all the Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across the country.

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 makes it mandatory to establish at least one Child Welfare Committee in each district and invests in it the authority to deal with cases for the care, protection, treatment, development, and rehabilitation of children and also protecting their human rights.

Child care is something which has largely been ignored when it comes to the formulation of state policies. Adequate infrastructural support and technological web shall help to aid every beneficiary even to the one standing in the last of the queue.

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Reference:

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