Bill to increase number of child daycare centres placed in JS

Child Daycare Centre Bill-2021 was placed in the parliament today to support the children of working women.

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa placed the bill, which was sent to the parliamentary standing committee on the respective ministry for scrutiny.

The Committee has been asked to submit its report before the House within two months.

The proposed legislation has been prepared as the number of working women is increasing in the country.

According to the proposed law, there will be four types of child daycare centres in the country.

The first category of daycare centre will run with subsidies provided by the government. There will be daycare centres run by the government, any government agency, directorate, department, statutory agency, or autonomous agency to provide services free of cost. Daycare centres can also run under individuals or organisations for commercial purposes, and non-profitable daycare centres run by any individual, organisation, non-government organisation, club, association, corporate sector, or industrial sector.

Registration will be required to set up child daycare centres and there would be a separate authority for their registration.

The Women and Children Affairs Ministry will monitor the daycare centres.

According to the proposed law, the maximum punishment for failure to maintain proper safety and security of children in the daycare centres would be Tk 10 lakh fine.

If anyone runs any child daycare centre without registration, they would be fined Tk 50,000, said the Bill.