Shahdara District Legal Services Authority conducted a Legal Awareness session on 24.04.2024. DLSA-Shahdara appointed Ms. Shisba Chawla, LAC as resource person to delivered a session on “Good Touch & Bad Touch as well as provisions of the POCSO Act” at SKV, Kiran Vihar at 10:00 AM.
The resource person started the session with a brief explanation of the primary and secondary body parts of Human Body. The resource person called three volunteers/girl students from the crowd and asked them to repeat by pointing towards their Body-Parts. This helped the audience engage in the session and ensured that there was pin-drop salience in the hall for the session to be conducted smoothly. Then she went on to explain what a Good Touch and Bad Touch are, and how it can make one feel good or bad from within. The children were told that it was irrelevant whether the person touching them was their family member or stranger. The children were also told that it is not okay for anyone to touch their private parts by anyone, with or without their permission. The Resource person explained the importance of reporting such incidents and also explained in a simple manner the meaning of the word offence. This explanation had laid down a sufficient background for the Resource Person to introduce the provisions and procedure of the protection of children from sexual offences Act (“POCSO”), 2012. The Resource Person talked to the children about each work present in the title of the Act in great detail. Lastly, the Ld. Principal asked the Resource Person to explain to the teachers the procedure of reporting an offence under the POCSO Act.