Telangana launches four new child welfare initiatives on Children’s Day | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: Telangana govt has launched four new child welfare initiatives on Children’s Day, including an AI-based system to monitor malnourished children and a 100-day campaign to eradicate child marriages. Minister for women and child welfare Seethakka, along with health minister Damodara Raja Narasimha and transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar, announced the measures at Children’s Day celebrations organised at Babu Jagjivan Ram Bhavan in Banjara Hills.Speaking on the occasion, Seethakka said that the state govt launched four new initiatives on Children’s Day. “The AI system will track children with severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition. Six new specialised adoption agencies will be set up, along with four childline help centres in Hyderabad, Mahabubnagar, Medak and Rangareddy,” the minister said. The ministers also unveiled a poster for a 100-day special campaign to eradicate child marriage.While warning that delays in legal adoption could encourage illegal adoptions, the women and child welfare minister emphasised the need for a faster and more accessible child adoption mechanism. Seethakka said children’s happiness was the true measure of development and that the Revanth Reddy-led govt was committed to ensuring their safety, health, quality education and a bright future. Marking Jawaharlal Nehru’s birth anniversary, she said the govt was following Nehru’s vision of children as the nation’s future.The minister also said the Anganwadi breakfast programme is being expanded and that, for the first time, orphaned children in Bala Sadans were receiving Aadhaar cards, birth and caste certificates, health records and orphan status certificates. Seethakka said child protection was a shared responsibility of parents, teachers, voluntary groups and society. Child rights commission members, women and child welfare department special secretary Shruti Ojha and director Sangeetha Satyanarayana also attended the event.