BIKANER: An awareness workshop on Safe and Unsafe Touch under SPARSH campaign was held online in Samvit Shikshan Sansthan Sr. Sec. School, Bikaner on 02-10-2021. Principal Mrs. Sheetal Kanwar informed Shadwal that Dr. Reena Vyas, Ms. Priyanka Kapoor and Mr. Vikram Raghav were the key speakers. Ms. Chetna Chouhan, Mrs. Shaheen Khan and Mrs. Disha Pareek co-hosted the online sessions for Samvit Shikshan Sansthan. Other than them a total 15 teachers and more than 225 students of standard 1st to 12th and their parents attended the workshop. All the three sessions were very informative, useful and enlightening for the students, their parents and the staff as well.
The Director of the institution eminent educationist Mr. Ganga Singh Tak expressed his gratitude on the behalf of Samvit Shikshan Sansthan to respected Mr. Naveen Jain IAS for this exemplary initiative.
Sparsh: An Innovative Initiative for a Safe Childhood
Child sexual abuse is a growing social challenge in the country. To address this issue, Naveen Jain, Secretary, Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Department of Planning and Statistics, Government of Rajasthan launched the voluntary campaign ‘Sparsh’. Each day we feel disturbed at the rising incidence of child abuse cases in the country. Mental, physical and emotional torture of innocents is way beyond our imagination. Some blame it on heavy reporting and raising awareness but surely there is much underneath we have yet to dig out and feel even more pained and ashamed. Recently, the Human Rights Wing of Rajasthan Police has revealed in its survey that 89 percent of the sexual crimes against minors its close relatives who are involved. This must send shivers down our spine. As this report indicates that girls from the infant age to adulthood are targets of such crimes committed by people who they trust or who are closer to them. Rajasthan has also seen the spread of a network of criminals dealing with child sex abuse imagery and creating an unsafe web world. These are the sources offering a clue to the criminals to apply methods and means to lure and abuse a child and often it leads to a threat to life also.
In the wake of these rising incidents and its implications, it is so urgent to educate our children about the nature of physical abuse and their preparedness to deal with such occurrences. This is part of preventive action to equip and prepare our children to sense and respond to the threats around them. Based on the right and tested knowledge, such crimes can be controlled and watched to send a strong message to the criminal mind that it can no longer continue to happen. This pain of innocence being robbed and the purpose of keeping our children safe was the genesis of this campaign.
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