CWC team off to J'khand to hand over Nidhi
Travelling around 2,300km on the Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express, the team will reach Jharkhand on Wednesday and hand over the baby to the child welfare committee (CWC) in Lohardaga district. Later, they will resume their journey to West Bengal's Nadia, a district bordering Bangladesh, to hand over a 16-year-old girl, who reached Kochi six months ago, to CWC officials.
"We are travelling by cradling her and playing with toys.
Three special juvenile police personnel are escorting us on the journey. We will also hand over the 16-year-old girl to Nadia CWC. She was rescued by railway police at Ernakulam Junction railway station. We have understood that her parents are separated and she came here with her friends, who are above 18 years old, in search of a job," said Sini K S, Ernakulam child protection officer, on the way to Jharkhand.
CWC officials in Kerala decided to hand over Nidhi to their counterparts in Jharkhand.
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The parents of the baby, who were located later, said they were forced to abandon the baby due to their inability to raise her following poor financial conditions. Health minister Veena George named the girl Nidhi after Ernakulam CWC took over the baby, who was born with anaemia and weighed less than 1kg, requiring special care at the NICU.
She was later shifted to a childcare institute in the city.
Though the parents later expressed a wish to take back the girl, Ernakulam CWC decided to hand over the baby to Jharkhand officials, who will take a decision on whether to reunite the baby with her parents or not.
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