Bus For Street Children Launched In Thane

It is an initiative of the Women and Child Welfare depaಌrtment, to be run through an NGO. Such buses will 🐓also be introduced in Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and Mumbai, officials said.

PTI

Updated on: 22 February 2023 12:15 pm

Street children carry reused plastic cans filled with water to their shanties in the illegal Yamuna

S𓆉treet children carry reused plastic cans filled with water to their shanties in the illegal Yamuna

Street children carry reused plastic cans fi🌠lled with water to their shanties in the illeꦐgal Yamuna

A special bus for street children where they can get educational and counselling facilities was rolled out here. Thane district collector Ashok Shingare laun🍒ched the bus, named `Bal Snehi', on Tuesday.

It is an initiative of the Women an🌟d Child 𝔍Welfare department, to be run through an NGO. Such buses will also be introduced in Pune, Nashik, Nagpur and Mumbai, officials said.

Every bus, with capacity to accommodate 25 children at a time, will visit si💎x places in the district and have a counsellor, teachers and a care taker.