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NCPCR raises alarm about Bible teachings given to youngsters of feminine prisoners in UP, Bihar, Andhra and Maharashtra

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In what comes as a significant downside of Christian evangelists, missionaries and affiliated NGO’s attempting to power Christianity down the throat of non-Christian believers — the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in a latest research came upon that Bible was being forcefully taught to youngsters of non-Christian girls prisoners throughout the nation and that it was gross negligence on a part of the state equipment.“The Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 defined these children as ‘Children in Need of Care and Protection’ and makes it binding on the State machinery to ensure that these children do not fall prey to institutions which not only compromises with their safety and security but denies them the right to preserve identity, including nationality, name and family relations as recognised by the law without unlawful interference (UNCRC),” the report learn.The report coated eight girls prisons in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra and included 144 responses of girls prisoners their youngsters, heads of kids’s properties and hostels, heads of faculties and jail officers.Read extra: ‘Children are being sold in Jharkhand,’ NCPCR calls for SIT probe towards Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of CharityThe report mentions that the researchers discovered stacks of the Bible in crèche (day-care) services. “It was observed during the visits that the prison administration of NariBandiNiketan in Lucknow has given permission to an NGO to impart moral and religious teachings of Bible to children of women prisoners belonging to a different religion.” the report learn while giving an instance.The report cites one other instance of 1 Asha Deep Foundation the place it was equally discovered that youngsters have been being taught non secular teachings of Christianity apart from one practised by the youngsters. “The Commission conducted a surprise visit and retrieved around 26 Bibles from the lockers and rooms of the non-Christian children.”The Commission didn’t maintain again in criticising the state authorities for permitting such apply to go unfettered for therefore lengthy.“It is a gross negligence on the part of state machinery who fail to bear the responsibility towards these children, eventually provide access to these vulnerable children and further perpetuate their vested interests,” added the report of NCPCR.According to a News18 report, the NCPCR report additionally mentions that whereas conducting the pilot research in Delhi, the fee discovered main gaps within the present jail administration system the place youngsters are positioned in hostels with out the correct orders of the kid welfare committee, district collectorate, or division of social welfare, which compromises the protection and safety of those youngsters.What NCPCR exposes is a powerful nexus between the NGOs and missionary teams throughout the nation the place folks of different religion are manipulated to transform into Christianity. However, benefiting from the ladies prisoners who barely get to see their youngsters within the jail — these NGOs had been stealthily attempting to transform and form the youngsters from a younger age. The state, in addition to the jail authorities, have to be held accountable for the gross negligence and hard measures have to be launched within the jail system for not letting such incidents occur once more.