Understanding the seriousness of the issue, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in W.P. Civil 382 of 2013 pronounced that the sexual intercourse committed by the husband upon his wife being under the age of 18 years with or without her consent can be constituted as rape. To address this, the most definitive and audacious commitment to end child marriage was made with the launch of Child Marriage Free India campaign.

Chetna Vikas is collaborating with KSCF on child protection in order to promote the complete development of children. In this program, we provide counselling sessions, mental support and give paralegal support to children under the POCSO Act and hold awareness sessions on a regular basis.

The project aims to support the strengthening of child protection systems through the interagency use and testing of bottom-up approaches that complement dominant top-down approaches being used to implement the Integrated Child Protection Scheme in India.

We along with ChildFund India envisions to ensure healthy, peaceful and a dignified and protected life for all its children and youth, especially belonging from the deprived, excluded and vulnerable (DEV) category.

Chetna Vikas along with Plan India is implementing a project named Bal Maitri- Towards Child Friendly Jharkhand on Child Protection issues. It began its work in four districts of Jharkhand with the help of Oak Foundation. One panchayat from each district was taken into consideration, namely, Sankari Panchayat from Deoghar, Karnpura panchayat from Giridih, Topchanchi Panchayat from Dhanbad and Bararwah from Sahebjganj.