An ideal child-friendly city integrates the voice, needs, priorities and rights of children in its public policies, programmes and decisions. An important aspect of such a city is to provide children with an opportunity to live in a safe, secure and clean environment, with access to green spaces. By this definition, do our cities qualify as child-friendly? In India, 66 percent of parents believe that their child could get seriously hurt in a road traffic crash, and 92.5 percent of parents believe that there is a need to improve road safety for children.
WRI India, in partnership with the Rohtak Police, the Municipal Corporation of Rohtak and the NASSCOM Foundation, started the Safer Commute for School Children project in Rohtak in May 2018. The project envisions Rohtak as a city where children can travel safely on the road, either by foot, cycle or transit, regardless of whether they are accompanied by an adult or commuting on their own.
Read the full article on WRI India here.
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