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    CRY in Action 2013 - 2014
    (2014) Child Rights & You, CRY
    Before every election, politicians debate key issues that the country is concerned about inflation, corruption, and many more. One significant issue that both citizens and politicians should take seriously but often don't, is the issue of child rights. Every day, millions of Indian children are denied their fundamental rights to education, healthcare and safety. And although the country’s youth is critical to our present and future, not enough action is taken to improve this situation.
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    Developing a new perspective on Child Labour Exploring the aftermath of Mumbai raids conducted from 2008 onwards
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2014) Child Rights & You, CRY
    Recent estimates reveal that world over, 218 million children are involved in child labour, of which about 126 million children are engaged in hazardous situations such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. Newspaper reports reveal that government statistics on the child labour population show that India has over 20 million child labourers. NGO estimates are higher and these suggest that this number is as high as 60 million and can extend upto a 100 million if all out of school children are part of the labour force.
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    TOGETHER IS THE BIGGEST NUMBER
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2015) Child Rights & You, CRY
    CRY recognises volunteerism as an expression of citizen participation that ranges from acts of giving to demanding change. We offer a platform for citizens with diverse interests, skills and knowledge to engage in action that have direct and indirect impact on child rights. The role of Volunteer Action involves reaching out to the public, recruiting them as volunteers and facilitating initiatives by offering innovative and diverse volunteer engagement options. In 2014-15, CRY worked with over 3,000 volunteers spread across 20 cities and had 270 Internship placements within CRY.
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    Malnutrition: Unanswered questions from Attapadic
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2015) Child Rights & You, CRY
    A study conducted by Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) found that 130 crore tons of food items lay wasted in the last 5 years-the exact food quantity that the African continent requires for its survival. Today one of seven in the world goes to bed, hungry. Statistics reveal that every year 20,000 children below the age of 5 die of starvation and poverty.
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    Status Report on Child Rights in India
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Child Rights & You, CRY
    Children constitute over a third of India’s population of a 1.21 billion and yet they are only perceived as the ‘future generation’ of economically contributing adults and not as citizens of today. The CRY study, ‘Status Report on Child Rights in India: An Overview of the Past Decade’ shows a very dismal situation where current issues concerning children are highlighted.
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    ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL OFFENCES (POCSO) ACT
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Raha, Swagata; Giliyal, Anuroopa iyal; Sajjanshetty, Geeta
    The Act was enacted to protect children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography and to provide a child-friendly system for the trial of these offences. Data from a study undertaken by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on ‘Child Abuse’ in 2007 had revealed that 53.22% of children had faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.
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    Crime Against Children in India
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Child Rights & You, CRY
    In year 2015 and 2016, Crime against children in India has increased by a sharp 11% as freshly released NCRB data suggests. Going by absolute numbers, it’s an increase of 12,786 reported crimes against children across the country. The total number of crimes against children report edin 2016 is 106958, while 94172 crimes were record edin 2015.
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    Public Financing of School Education in India
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Kundu, Protiva; Rout, Surajita
    In the Constitution of India, education appears in the concurrent list; accordingly, provisioning of resources for the same is a shared responsibility of the Union and State Governments. Public financing of education, to a large extent, depends on the policy and budgetary priorities for education. In order to assess the adequacy of the prevailing quantum of public financing for the sector, it is useful to have a rough estimate of how much the government should spend on financing quality education, taking into account the existing policy framework for public provisioning of education.
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    HOW HAVE STATES DESIGNED THEIR SCHOOL EDUCATION BUDGETS?
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Kundu, Protiva; Singh, Gaurav
    Around 68 years ago, India began its journey towards the goal of universal and free basic education. The Union Government initiated a number of programmes to achieve the goal of Universalisation of Elementary Education, the most signifi cant of which is the SSA, launched in 2001. Legislative response fi nally came through the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which came into force on April 1, 2010, to provide free and compulsory education to children in the age group of 6-14 years in a neighbourhood school. In spite of these Government interventions, the story of India’s educational achievements is one of limited success.
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    CRY in Action 2015 - 2016
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Child Rights & You, CRY
    CRY in action proudly bring to you stories of how you, our donors, supporters have actively participated to bring about lasting change.
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    Flawed Child Labour Law Amendment
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Ganotra, Komal
    By institutionalising child labour in family-based occupations under the age of 14 years and permitting the employment of children in many hazardous occupations, India has failed its children.
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    A Pittance for Our Children Union Budget 2017–18
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2017) Ganotra, Komal
    For the last 15 years, allocation to the child budget has remained stagnant at around 3% of the union budget. This analysis points out why this amount is proving completely inadequate in safeguarding the health, nutrition, education and protection of India’s 434 million children.
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    OUR ASPIRATIONS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2017) Child Rights & You, CRY
    This document is an attempt by CRY to capture children’s aspirations from across the country - with the hope that it leaves an impact in the minds of those who can help turn them into reality – political leaders, policy makers and even citizen voters.
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    Budgeting for School Education in Tamil Nadu
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines Tamil Nadu governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.
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    Budgeting for School Education in Bihar
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines Bihar governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.
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    Budgeting for School Education in West Bengal
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines West Bengal governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.
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    Childescents in India: We are children too
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) M, Sangeeta
    This report ia the result of a special journey undertaken by CRY in the recent years which has been bought tough and rewarding. This report is dedicated to these children who appear seemingly invisible as children to the society at large.
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    Budgeting for School Education in Chhattisgarh
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines Chhattisgarh governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.
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    Budgeting for School Education in Uttar Pradesh
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines Uttar Pradesh governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.
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    Budgeting for School Education in Maharashtra
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Kundu, Protiva
    The landscape of fiscal policy and budgetary processes in India has witnessed a number of changes over the last few years. The 14th Finance Commission (FC) recommended increasing the share of states in the divisible pool of central taxes from the erstwhile 32 percent to 42 percent. On the other hand, the Union Government has pursued its fiscal consolidation by compressing expenditure, mostly on Central schemes in social sectors including school education. It is obvious that the new fiscal architecture will directly impact the public provisioning of education at the state level. In this changed fiscal space, this policy brief examines Maharashtra governments' policy response to school education and attempts to assess the impact of the 14th FC recommendations on the current level of public spending on school education and identify areas where more resources need to be invested.