Itanagar, Nov 20: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has underscored the urgent need to strengthen child protection systems, revealing that in the past six months alone it disposed of nearly 26,000 cases and rescued over 2,300 children across the country.

Speaking at a state-level conference in Itanagar on gaps and challenges in implementing key child rights legislations, Paresh Shah, Division Head for Juvenile Justice, POCSO and Special Cells at NCPCR, said that child rights violations in the region must not be viewed as data points, as “each case represents a story of a child and a family.”

He stressed that the actions of officials today will shape not only children’s lives but the future of the nation.

Shah emphasised that both the Centre and the Arunacha

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