Bal Asha Trust, a Mumbai-based child welfare organisation, has been awarded the Bal Snehi Award 2024 by the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights. Recognised for its exceptional adoption services and child-first approach, the Trust continues to provide care, rehabilitation, and medical support to abandoned and vulnerable child

NCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo has proposed setting up `Cooperative Shelters` to rehabilitate street children and their families in Maharashtra`s Thane district. Kanoongo urged officials from Women and Child Development Department to visit and study such projects and replicate them in the Thane district Project.