Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said his government would extend all possible help to encourage parents take back their children shunned to orphanages and asked the society to come forward and help orphans.
"Everyone should come forward to help orphans as their parents are not alive to look after them at a time when it is of most needed in their lives," he said at the launch of book "Weakest on Earth, Orphans in India".
The Chief Minister said some children have been forced to live like orphans as there parents have shunned them because of certain compulsions.
"If such parents come forward to take their children back, government will extend every possible help," he said, adding that efforts would also be made to locate such parents and provide monetary support to them.
It is the government's responsibility to take care of orphans and several steps are being taken in this direction. The condition in orphanages will be improved and budgetary allocation will also be made for providing scholarships to such children, the Chief Minister said.
Arrangements will also be made for providing information about orphans over 1090 women powerline and dial 100 services, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav stressed on proper arrangement for education, medicine, fooding and lodging of orphans.
The government will have to think in this direction and provide support with the help of peoples' representative, social activists and administrative machinery, he said.
According to the book there are about two crore orphan children in the country which needed the help of all, Yadav said, adding "Inequality of every kind needs to be wiped out from society and if all join hands we can solve the problems faced by orphan children.
