Kathmandu, June 10: The centre to assist and protect child rights of Nepal has said that establishment of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare at the central executive level, the provision of Juvenile Courts in all the 75 districts of the Kingdom and realisation of the need for amendments in the child regulation -2048 B.S. Although belatedly are some of the important achievements in the direction of child rights protection.

It also said that institutions and organisations working in the field of child rights and welfare and the community at large were beginning to have the impression that His Majesty’s Government is beginning to take some important steps for the rights and welfare of the Nepali child.

In a press communiqué issued here the other day, the centre has said that its attention has been drawn to the draft amendment to the child regulations -2048 B.S. by the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare and that there were still a lot of provisions on child welfare and rights remaining to be incorporated in the proposed draft.

The provisions adopted in the United Nations child rights convention have not been given the complete shape in the proposed draft. Conventions keep on changing, but there should be some consistency in them, the centre observed.

There are many things that need to be reformed in the present Child Regulations Act.

Therefore, rather than making additions of some provisions and effecting changes in the act hurriedly, open discussions should be held with concerned experts and necessary additions and deletions made accordingly, the centre suggested.