QIC&AC-Delhi, Minutes of the Meeting, April 2009

Date: 09.04.09 at 2.30PM-04:30PM
Venue: Udayan Care office, 16/97A, Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar IV, behind Vikram Hotel

Participants:
Vikram Dutt, Udayan Care
D. Yadav, QIC&AC Member
Adv. A. Awasti, QIC&AC Member
Shweta Verma, Saarthak
Gurjeet Kaur, Chronic Care Foundation
Antra, Udayan Care
Kesar Parveen, Project Officer, QIC&AC Delhi

Apologies Received:
Nalini Ranganathan,
Jitendra, PAHAL

Agenda of the Meeting:
· Follow up of the last meeting minutes
· Foster Care as one of the emerging issue
· An overview on DCPCR initiative to promote “the rehabilitation prog. for Child beggars on the streets in Delhi”.
· QIC&AC Newsletter
· QIC&AC Blog
· Any other issue as given up by the network

All presented members introduced themselves with the presented members of the group.

Points Discussed:
· Vikram Dutt discussed about the follow up action plan of MH Consultation. He shared the objective to plan National & International MH Consultation in series of the earlier one. He emphasis on the implementation of S-46, JJ Act. Also, he talked about un-availability of budget which would be essential for implementation of S-46, JJ Act. In addition, he shared about the budget implications for which he has already talked to one international fonder who showed his consent to provide funds for the purpose. Besides, he consciously added that he is expecting a manual from the proposed series of consultation as an outcome.
· Discussing about the admission procedure in the schools of Delhi & NCR area, group was confused on, what would be the jurisdiction of HC directive/guidelines/judgments. Adv. Awasti shared that it depends on the statement given in the directive/guidelines/judgments passed by HC till the time it will come out/declared to be a rule through State Notification.
· Kesar Parveen shared with the group about DCPCR initiative regarding formulation of “Rehabilitation plan for the children on streets in Delhi”. In which DCPCR held a meeting with selected NGO’s. Some of the members presented in the meeting are also members of QIC&AC, Delhi network. She shared that she had a telecom conversation with Ms. Hema Bhatt, Member DCPCR, on the issue. She also proposed her that QIC&AC is willing to be a part of this initiative. Latter she has sent QIC&AC introductory mail to Ms. Hema Bhatt.
Vikram Dutt suggested that on the behalf of QIC&AC network we can also approach to the representatives of the NGO’s presented in the DCPCR meeting. He gave few names presented in the DCPCR Meeting i.e. SBT, Butterflies, Kiran Jyoti, Amar Jyoti, HRLN, Naaz, Aanchal (Mr. Sanjeev Sheel), Donbosco, Asaylam etc.
· Kesar Parveen introduces Surrogacy (ART Bill) as one of the issue dealing with child as one of the main stakeholders. Talking about the technicality involved she requested to D. Yadav to share the details with the group. In his sharing Yadav Ji shared certain major aspects, these are,
a) No role of JJ Act in ART Bill.
b) No role of CWC in ART Bill
c) Many other which effects on the status of the surrogated child.
After detailed discussion following are the points on which group thinks to be work on:
a) to address the issue in core group meeting to plan the strategic action to proceed,
b) few eminent names were suggested by Dutt Ji who would be invited as key speakers i.e. Adv. Ashwani Kumar (Ex-Solicitor Gernl. of India), Adv. Salman Khursheed, Adv. K.T.S. Tulsi, Adv. S. Pappu.
c) In addition, group seems to be little confused whether to make the programme legal based or social activism,
d) to approach NHRC
e) same time Dutt Ji shared that Ms. Harinder Baweja, Tehalka Editor Investigations showed interest to cover the issue in greater interest.
At the end of the discussion group strongly feels that the existing mechanism of the nation/state should not be bypassed and if so happen it should be addressed. Therefore the scope to address the issue is evident here in this case.
· Kesar Parveen shared that she has added few news clips on QIC&AC Blog. She invited suggestions & comments to add on the all concerning issues addressed in news clippings. Group showed their interest & consented to give their views as expected.
· While sharing about draft newsletter Kesar Parveen shared that she has expected feedbacks from the group. Therefore it was decided that a soft copy would be sent by her to all the members for their suggestions.
· Serious concern has been discussed among the group that strength/interest of the group members in the meeting declining day by day. Therefore there is a need to retain the network strength. This would happened by taking up specific activity at a time and plan strategic action plan so that all the members get involved as per their interest and expertise.
Meeting was ended with vote of thanks