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In terms of financial allocations also which is totally missing. It is an irony that the children who constitute 40 per cent of our population are allotted only 0.4 percent of the total Budget. The ICPS (Integrated Child Protection Scheme) which includes programmes for the Juvenile Justice which shows expenditure in 2013-14 as 265/- crores, has been allotted only 65/- crores in the current year. We saw this year a massive cut of 30 percent in the children's Budget. Sir, what are we talking about? Why didn't we taking wake up all this time?
After the incident, there was Verma Committee which was set up.
Therefore, more often then not you will find there are stated policies of the Government but Economic Survey can express contrary views. That is a healthy sign of free thinking and we should not mind it.
After the Verma Committee, we had several spate of amendments that we came up with. Today, we come up with a Juvenile Justice Bill or are wanting to pass this Bill to become an Act. Did we sleep all this time? What were we doing to ensure safety to the women of this country?
I feel we have terribly failed and we are unnecessarily taking the shortest path to see that we are doing something for the women of this country. Sir, we have miserably failed our children who need our help to reform and now we seek to introduce a 'draconian system' to further complicate their lives. What is the number of children that we are talking of? Children were actually apprehended, er have no statistics as to how many were actually convicted. But, in 2013, the number of children who were apprehended for rape is 1,388.