Stuti Narain Kacker, a 1978 batch IAS officer, has been appointed as the Head of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights by Women and Child Development Ministry. Kacker retired as Secretary from Disability Affairs, in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. She was heading the management committee of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA). The announcement came after the recent Supreme Court rap over long delay in appointing a chairperson for the child rights panel.

Points to Note

• The Commission deals with education, child development, care of neglected and marginalised children, elimination of child labour, child psychology and other laws related to children.
• According to the NCPCR Act, of the six members of the commission, two have to be women.
• The members need to be eminent personalities in the fields for which they are appointed.