‘POCSO e-Box’ is related to Child sexual abuse
Q. ‘POCSO e-Box’ is related to- Published on 29 Aug 16a. Child Abuse
b. Illegal Coal Mining
c. Mining Royalties given to the Tribal people
d. Complaining against depriving tribals of their land and forests
ANSWER: Child Abuse
- An online complaint box for reporting child sexual abuse, the POCSO e-Box was launched by the Ministry for Women and Child Development in New Delhi.
- Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), e-Box, is an online complaint management system for easy and direct reporting of sexual offences against children and timely action against the offenders under the POCSO Act, 2012.
- The idea of an e-Box came out of a police initiative in which physical complaint boxes were placed in schools.
- The e-Box will make it possible to implement it on a large scale throughout the country.
- A large number of incidents of abuse are against close relatives and so they get pushed under the carpet.
- E-Box is very simple to operate and will help to maintain the confidentiality of the complaint.
- The e-Box is incorporated prominently in the home page of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) website http://ncpcr.gov.in/ where a user has to simply push a button named POSCO e-Box.
