Protection and Empowering Children in India: Special Reference to COVID-19 Crisis

The study pertains to all children, regardless of their age or location, who are impacted, especially by socioeconomic factors. Child protection is the discipline of avoiding and responding to all forms of abuse, exploitation, and violence. Education and health are the two areas that are affected most immediately (as a result of the immediate impact of school closures due to the disruption of health services). This entails helping adolescents who are most at risk for such dangers, such as those who are abandoned by young families, living on the streets, or who are impacted by military confrontation or natural disasters. The COVID 19 pandemic, which is harming children’s health, social, and material well-being worldwide and is especially difficult on the poorest children, such as those who are homeless and those who held in custody, will be the subject of this study, which will investigate how to protect and empower children both during and after the pandemic. Children are more likely to suffer from poor nutrition, be exposed to domestic violence, suffer more stress and anxiety and have less access to crucial family and care services when schools are closed, isolated, or socially isolated. The research is descriptive and qualitative in character. This study is indeed very inventive and provides a bird’s-eye view of the laws and policies relating to the role responsibility and immediate government measures that need to be taken to ensure that children have access to nutritious meals, are shielded from child abuse and neglect, continue to receive services for their physical and mental health, are educated, and can use the internet safely. Additionally, as parental work is essential to battling child poverty, policies must promote it.