Chandragiri: The Chandragiri municipality has been awarded this year’s ‘CWIN-Nepal National Child Rights Honour’. The honour was conferred on the municipality in recognition of its significant deliveries in the protection and promotion of child rights amidst a programme organised on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the CWIN-Nepal (Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre).
According to National News Agency Nepal, the local government has established and implemented the ‘Child Fund’ aiming to provide emergency support to vulnerable children. Eight, out of 15 wards in Chandragiri, have already been announced as ‘child labour-free wards’.
Receiving the honour, Deputy Mayor Basanti Shrestha pledged to come up with more efforts to further improve the rights of children in her municipality. Municipality’s administrative officer Hermraj Aryal stated that they have implemented a child-friendly approach in service delivery.
Commitments and efforts of the municipality in the area of the protection and promotio
n of child rights are said to be exemplary for other local governments.