Nabarangpur, (Ranjit Naik) Date: 28.11.2025 Rikh: State government’s women and child development department’s orders are illegal Nabarangpur district administration and district child protection unit, a program has been held at Ashok Mehta meeting room in the office of the District Collector on the occasion of National Adoption Awareness Month! In this meeting, District Governor Maheshwar presided and said that various departments of the administration are working to protect every child in the district, every child in the society needs a family! If the child is adopted according to the law, the child can be protected. Also, the District Child Protection Department, Shishu Mars Samiti, District Health Department, BDI, CDPO, Anganwadi, aspirants instructed everyone to pay attention to how illegal adoption is not accepted in the district! Children who are living with other than their parents in the district, they have to immediately appear before the Child Welfare Committee, otherwise it will be declared invalid and the child will be taken under the control of the government, the District Governor suggested. In addition, all field workers will survey and provide a list to the district governor very soon! Among other guests, DSP Saroj Punam Kispata, District Social Welfare Officer Draupadi Kaher, Additional District Medical Officer Damale Kumar Tripathi, District Health Officer Rabindra Palka, District Deployment Officer Anand Palai, Group Development Officer Nandahandi Kshirod Chandra Sahu, District Security Officer Suresh Kumar Patnaik were present in this program! Among others, District Security Unit staff, Adoption Center Manager Sagar Patnaik, One Stop Center staff, Child Protection Support Center staff, Organist, Supervisor, Gender Coordinator Mamta Parisha were present and made this program successful! On this occasion, at 1000 hours in the morning, District Governor Dr. Maheshwar launched the Adoption Awareness Rath by showing his flag! This train will send the message on adoption in all 10 blocks of Nabarangpur district! Awareness will give protection to the child, adoption of legal adoption, child control, prohibition of child marriage, prevention of child crime will alert people! Due to lack of awareness, there are stigmatized practices like child marriage in the society! By this children are losing their basicity! Parents are forcing minors to marry at a young age in the name of tradition! At the age of studying, being separated from the family, deprived of their rights and getting motherhood before the marriageable age! The aim of this program is to prevent child violence in the society, to adopt children according to the constitutional law, to raise awareness about the protection and rights of children and education, said the district governor. In every block of the district where the vigilance chariot will reach, the vigilance workers, a member of self-help group, an elected panchayat representative, heads of all castes, teenage girls and other people of the village will be accompanied by vigilance workers, the administration has instructed all vigilance workers to hold a general vigilance meeting on the protection of children, foster children, protection and rights of children as per the constitutional law and education. District Child Protection Officer Suresh Patnaik gave information about the incident! In the opening ceremony of this awareness train in the premises of the district office, additional district welfare officer, Santhimayi Sahu, non-subsidiary protection officer from the district child protection unit, Kunimani Swayku, manager of the district special adoption center Mr. Sagar Patnaik and inmates of Deen Memil nursery school, child welfare officer Jashmita Naik and Priya Sahu, child helpline workers were present!
Ranjit Naik’s report from Nabarangpur First News Odisha !