Dear Reader,
In 2016, the Madhya Pradesh (MP) Chief Minister launched a campaign - ‘Operation Muskaan’ - for tracing and rescuing ‘missing children’ in the state. But almost six years later nothing seems to have changed.
MP leads in the cases of missing children in the country. In 2020 alone, more than 8,000 children went missing, 80 per cent of them girls, many of them Adivasis. Article 14 reports from Dhar in MP that the primary issues of police apathy, poverty and climate change, which contribute to the disappearance and trafficking of children, have hardly been addressed.
As India recorded its hottest March in 122 years this year, heatwaves continue to be one of the biggest climate challenges for the country. The Bastion analyses that this challenge is only going to intensify in the future with heat-related morbidities and mortalities being under-reported and undocumented.
Digital literacy is key to participation in the workforce today. This is especially true of a significant section of women in India. India Development Review points to three factors that stand in the way of full and productive entry of women into the workforce – skill deficit, social network gap and restrictive gender norms.
And, ‘sealed cover jurisprudence’ – the presenting of sensitive and confidential information by government agencies to the courts - has become rampant and pervasive. A practice that has been recently decried by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Observer examines the issue.
For more such stories from the grantees this week, please read on.
Warmly,
Sunil Rajshekhar
IPSMF
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