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About NCPCR
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 Ms.
Dipa Dixit, who joined as Member in 2007 after the institution of the
Commission, has been appointed for her second term and will pursue laws
and policies relating to children. She has participated in public
hearings and consultations related to various issues affecting children
(i.e. education, corporal punishment, malnutrition, child labour,
internally displaced children health-HIV/AIDS, etc.). She has provided
valuable inputs to guidelines on corporal punishment, suggested
legislative and policy changes to the Juvenile Justice system, Child
Labour Act, and the Policy on Internally Displaced People (children in
conflict areas). She has also worked on the Right to Education Act,
Draft Bill for Sexual Offences against Children and is also engaged
with issues of child jurisprudence. Ms. Dixit graduated with a
Bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) from ILS Law College, Pune and received
a Master – in- Law degree in 1994 from Cambridge University, England. |
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Dr Vandana Prasad is a community
pediatrician who returned to India after attaining an MRCP in Pediatrics from
the UK in 1993 to join the social sector as a child health worker. She is a
public health expert with a Masters in Public Health from the University of
Western Cape, South Africa. Her main experience and expertise is in the area of
malnutrition, child health and public health systems strengthening.She is
currently Member for Child Health, Welfare and Development with the National
Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
Preceding this, Dr Prasad has
been the founder secretary and National Convenor of Public Health Resource
Network as well as its advisor on programme. She has been a Joint Convenor of
People's Health Movement-India (Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) and a member of the
Steering Committee of the Right to Food Campaign and the Working Group For
Children Under Six.
As part of her direct work with
children, Dr Prasad was associated with Mobile Creches for about 18 years,
through which she worked with children in slums and on construction sites in
Delhi and she continues to practice as a pediatrician for poor children through
a free weekly clinic.
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 Shri Vinod
Kumar Tikoo joined this Commission as a Member on
22.11.2010, M.A.in Social Work with specialization in Child &
Community Development, and M.Phil with specialization in Personnel
Management & Industrial Relations, from Delhi School of Social
Work.
He has a vast experience of
working for the welfare of children & women. He was associated
with
the Child Guidance Centre established in 1971 as a field demonstration
project and now renamed as Centre for Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (
CCAW ). At the centre diagnostic treatment and referral services to the
children with behavioural and emotional problems and other specific
childhood disorders of children aged above 3 years provided, using
inter-disciplinary approach with an aim to understand children’s
problems through planned interventions carried at the level of child,
his/her Parents, Family, School and Community. Shri Tikoo has also been
associated with the Rotary Club of Madras in promoting the girl child’s
interest in formal education and organizing the school uniforms, books,
shoes and scholarships to the girl child belonging to the lower strata
of the Society. The programme has been well received for the past five
years.
He was also associated with
Gram Mahila Kendra later renamed as Centre for Community Action and
Development (CCAD). It is currently in operation in Burari Semi-Urban
area in Delhi. It envisions the creation of empowered community for
improving the quality of life of the people, based on the principles of
social justice and human rights.
He also has experience of
Block Field work in Children’s Home Kingsway Camp and Community
Development in Kingsway Camp & Outram Lines with special
emphasis
on the Women Welfare & Child Development under the Community
Welfare Programme especially in the Slum Areas of Delhi.
Shri Vinod Kumar Tikoo had also worked with TCPO,
Ministry of Works & Housing on a project “Social Cohensiveness
and Physical Form,”. He has also worked with the Directorate of Social
Welfare, Govt of Delhi, and formulated a plan for the reformation of
the working of Lepers Home, Shahdara.
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 Dr. Yogesh Dube is the youngest member with a
strong social, cultural
and educational background. He is committed towards child rights and
has extensively worked for children, youth as well as general public of
Maharashtra. He received the National Youth Award (by Ministry of
H.R.D., Government of India) highest honor given to the youth by
Government of India for National Development and Social Service in
1996. He is also recipient of “Rastriya Yuvak Samman” in 2001 and
“Shreshth Baalak Paalak Pruraskar” in 2004.
Dr. Dube is founder and a
trustee of “Bhartiya Vikas Sansthan” (Child Relief Centre) which works
on different issues of children in need of care and protection e.g.
child labour, orphans, street, distress, differently abled and abused,
etc. children in their concerned areas. He has initiated many
movements/campaigns on anti-child labour, organized and participated
many seminars and workshops on the issues of child labour. He has
worked with focus on child’s mental and physical health with children
of urban slum and rural areas and conducted various medical health
camps, seminars and workshops. Worked for children in and around
Railway Station and encouraged them to improve their life, living
standard by rehabilitating them. Dr. Dube has been effectively worked
in tribal dominated areas as well as Naxal hit areas of the country.
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