Half the posts in India's state child right commissions are vacant and only a fourth of these panels are fully formed, data the government has placed in the Supreme Court show. While the State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights is headless in 11 states and Union territories, another 11 have a chairperson without a team, says the affidavit furnished by the ministry of women and child development last month. Ten have no members to counsel children or listen to their woes. While 19 states and 3 Union territories have notified the rules for the commissions, 14 commissions are functioning without any notified rules -in effect, doing no work at all.

 

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