13-05-2025
Maha drive to rehabilitatestreet children in Nagpur
Nagpur: In a landmark decision to bring street children into the mainstream of education and society, the Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved a comprehensive scheme to operate run Mobile Outreach Teams across the state.
The initiative aims to rehabilitate thousands of homeless, orphaned, and neglected children by ensuring access to education, healthcare, protection, and overall development. The cabinet meeting was chaired by CM Devendra scheme, which was piloted in six districts —Nagpur, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, and Nashik — under the
Mission Vatsalya programme
, received positive feedback. Based on its success, the initiative will now be implemented as a regular state-level the approved plan, mobile teams will be deployed in each of the 29 municipal corporations across Maharashtra.
Mumbai will have two teams — one each for eastern and western suburbs — bringing the total to 31 mobile outreach units. In Nagpur, a dedicated van will be launched to identify and assist street children, working in collaboration with selected mobile outreach unit will include a child-friendly van equipped with a GPS tracker and CCTV camera, and will have a dedicated four-member team consisting of a counsellor, teacher, female staff member, driver, and caregiver.
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These teams will conduct social investigation reports and develop individualised rehabilitation plans tailored to each child's scheme's key goals include helping children enrol in Anganwadis or schools based on their age, conducting regular health checkups, providing vaccinations, nutritional support, de-addiction interventions, and instilling hygiene practices. Additionally, efforts will be made to engage children in creative and educational it will be mandatory for NGOs to ensure that at least 20% of the children they reach out to each month are admitted into formal schools. Funds will be disbursed quarterly, and regular progress reviews will be conducted by district-level Women and Child Development Nagpur, where the pilot project already showed promising results, the continuation and expansion of this mobile outreach effort is expected to significantly impact the lives of vulnerable children who long remained outside the formal support systems. This initiative marks a crucial step toward securing child rights and integrating neglected children into mainstream society.
