Dumka, July 2 -- In the quiet hinterlands of Ramgarh block in Jharkhand's Dumka district, the future of a two-month-old girl was hanging by a thread- until intervention by the district's child welfare system gave her a new chance at life.
The infant, born into a family grappling with severe poverty and personal trauma, was presented before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Dumka. Her father is reportedly mentally unstable, and her mother, left to shoulder the weight of survival alone, works as a daily wage labourer. With barely enough means to feed themselves, the parents found themselves unable to care for their newborn.
Moved by the situation, newly inducted committee members Subir Kumar Bhattacharya and Kiran Tiwari invoked Section 30...