90% of Dakshina Kannada schools lack child protection policy document: Panel

TheChild Rights Masotsava Committeehas observed that 90% of the schools inDakshina Kannadado not have a child protection policy document. The Karnataka State Child Rights Policy-2016 has even prescribed a template

for child protection policy for schools.

With the increasing numbers of crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and cyber crime, having a child protection policy document is the

need of the hour, and the committee will insist that the administration make it mandatory.