Another component of our ‘Integrated developmental support to prisoners’ children back home living in community for mainstreaming and reintegration’ is to arrange minimum health care facilities with supplementary nutrition to improve health status of children and overall hygienic environment of the target families. Keeping this in view we have also introduced health camp for Prisoners’ children back home living in the community. The first ever such health camp was organized by Rotary Club of Calcutta Mahanagar on August 30, 2009 at Kolkata where a general physician, an eye specialist and a dentist checked the health of 92 prisoners’ children.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights visited Presidency Correctional Home, Kolkata on 29.07.07.

An interaction of the Commission with Prisoners’ Children living back home in the community was arranged by West Bengal Correctional Services on the same day to highlight their plight and the need for take over of their education and protection by the State as there is no social security available for such children in India. The Commission was also requested to recommend similar programmes for developmental support to prisoners’ children back home in the community by all State Govts in India.