Case Study
Recently a Government Sponsored Shelter home in Bihar was in news as its owner whose spouse is a public authority in Ministry of Social Justice, was accused of raping and sexually abusing several underage inmates. The report was submitted by Tata Institute of Social Sciences which had inspected 110 government funded shelter homes in Bihar in 2018. Examples of abuse and violence, in varying degree and form, were found in almost all the shelter homes in the state. This has put a question mark not only on the NGO but also the Social Welfare Department of Bihar. The state social ....