195 children rescued in 11 days: Minister
Chandigarh, July 28 -- Punjab social security, women and child development minister Dr. Baljit Kaur on Sunday informed that under the ongoing state-level Project Jeevanjyot-2 campaign, three child beggars were rescued during 11 raids carried out across various districts of Punjab. Since the launch of this phase of the campaign, a total of 195 children have been rescued through 190 special raids conducted in 11 days, the minister stated. She added that these raids were conducted by the district-level child protection teams in Barnala, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Patiala, Sangrur, Sri Muktsar Sahib and Tarn Taran.
During the recent raids, two children were rescued in Hoshiarpur and one in Sangrur. htc...
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