Child Reporters’ Meet Hon. Speaker of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly

14 November 2022, Ranchi: On the occasion of Children’s Day and Child Development Week  (14-20 Nov’22) observance by UNICEF, the child reporters promoted under Child Reporters program by NBJK with support of UNICEF Jharkhand, met Mr. Ravindranath Mahto (Hon. Speaker, Jharkhand Legislative Assembly) at his office.

Hon. Speaker has greeted the child reporters and motivated them to overcome various obstacles on the way of study, dutifulness and good thoughts with action. He wished the children for success and endorsed a favourable environment to ensure their rights, self-respect, better education and health.

20 Child Reporters from 7 blocks of Ranchi district have participated in this learning visit; they introduced themselves, shared about their social interventions and asked questions to Hon. Speaker.

Baby Anamika from Govt. School, Itki has explained about an incident when she initiated against a child marriage in her neighborhood and could save the girl going to be married forcefully. Also Baby Trisha from Angada and Baby Lakshmi from Ormanjhi have briefed about the steps they took as child reporters against cases of Child Labour and School Dropout.

The children put the issues like negative view upon their intervention, social disparity for women-girls, malnourished children and dissemination of the message on child rights before Hon. Speaker.

He listened to children patiently, accepted their points, stressed over collective effort against social taboos and informed about the steps being taken by the government. Hon. Speaker said that childhood is a precious gift; it must be saved delicately and needs proper guidance without hurting freedom of the children.

Mrs. Astha Alang, Mr. Rajesh Jha (UNICEF Jharkhand), Mrs. Sushmita Bhattacharji (NBJK) and others were present during the visit. The event can be viewed at https://youtu.be/8fqcq9G55hA