More than 100,000 children lost one or both of their parents during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic across the country. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) gave this information to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The commission, which is running a dedicated website called Bal Swaraj to collect data on orphans and children who have lost one of their parents, submitted an affidavit in the apex court through advocate Swarupma Chaturvedi that 101,032 children Abandoned, orphaned, or lost one of their parents between April 1, 2020, and August 23, 2021, due to COVID-19 or other reasons.
Of this, the commission said, 8,161 were orphans, 396 children were abandoned and 92,475 had lost one of their parents.
