Doti's Children's Correctional Home will be shifted

After widespread complaints that there are more prisoners than the capacity of the children's correctional home built on an area of ​​3581.174 square meters in Siliguri, the headquarters, efforts are being made to transfer it to the building where the Education Development and Coordination Unit office is located. The children's correctional home built now is the building of the women and children development office of Savik.

On the 26th of July, the meeting of the District Child Justice Committee Doti issued a circular to the Central Juvenile Justice Committee with a decision to transfer it saying that the structure of the current Children's Correctional Home is too narrow to conduct sports, entertainment and skill programs.

Education Development and Coordinating Unit Office of Doti is going to be transferred to a land with an area of ​​6126.858 square meters in Silgarhi.

Although the children's correctional home established for the Far West Province has the capacity to accommodate 25 inmates, currently 56 There are people. Because more prisoners are kept than the capacity, they are facing problems in their daily work . Kailash Saund, a child psychologist and president of the District Bar Association, said that they are facing problems in eating, sitting, using the toilet, washing clothes, and bathing.

"Current child reform is like keeping chickens in a poultry farm", Sauad said, "I have been raising this matter many times in relevant places". A children's correctional home according to international standards should be built immediately.' A children's reform home was established in the month of August 2075.

Sanumaya Limbu, head of the Children's Correctional Home, said that there are 12 rooms in the 3-storey building. '49 prisoners have to be kept in 4 rooms', Chief Limbu said, 'Police bedroom, kitchen, library and TV hall have been made in the remaining rooms.' Limbu informed that in 2 rooms documents and materials of former Women and Children Development Office were kept. .

Even though the water hotline has been installed, sometimes there is no water in the stream, so we have to use vehicles to carry water. There are 6 toilets but they cannot be used due to lack of sanitation and water. 4 toilets are outside the building and 2 are inside. A child of KI Singh Rural Municipality complained that he had to stand in line even to go to the toilet. Even the police have been using the same toilet.

On Thursday, a team including member secretary of the Central Juvenile Justice Committee and registrar of the Supreme Court, Narayan Prasad Panthi, came to hand over the necessary materials for the children of the correctional home, including air coolers, TVs and computers. The team organized a formal program on Thursday and handed over 5 air coolers, 4 TVs, 6 computers and other materials. The inmates of the children's correctional facility requested to arrange the transmission as soon as possible as there is no open space and room in the building and there is no environment to use those devices.

Member Secretary Panthi assured that as soon as the child reform law comes, there will be some difficulties in building the physical structures, but even if there are some problems for the time being, gradually the structures will be built according to the standards . Panthi said that he is positive about transferring the existing children's correctional home to another open place and appealed to the local people's representatives for their support.

District Coordinating Committee Doti head Laxman Bahadur Singh said that the issue of shifting the child correctional home will be discussed and decided in the office of Education Development and Coordinating Unit. Bajisingh Khadka, city chief of Dipayal Silagadi Municipality said that the existing building of the Children's Correctional Center will be sufficient for the education development and coordination unit and the building of the Education Development and Coordination Unit for the Children's Correctional Center will be suitable as there is no pressure of manpower and work. He emphasized that the state government and all the 9 municipalities of Doti should invest in the child reform home as it is the only one in the province.