Travel travails of Norway kids end

With Abhighyan and Aishwarya Bhattacharya,the two toddlers who were brought home to India after a prolonged battle with Norway’s Child Welfare Service,travelling a total of 500 km every week to meet their mother,the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Burdwan has decided to end their travel travails. The CWC will now arrange for the interaction either at Kulti where they stay,or Asansol,which is 10 km from Kulti. Following an application from their mother,Sagarika,to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights for a request to allow her to meet her children, the CWC ordered the children’s uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya to come to CWC,Burdwan,where Sagarika can spend some time with the children. Sagarika stays with her father,Monotosh Chakrabarty,at Birati in North 24-Parganas district. Today,Arunabhas went with the two children to Burdwan. where Sagarika spent two hours with them. “Arunabhas told us about the daunting distance. We have now decided to hold the interaction at either Kulti or Asansol,’’ said Srikanta Basu,CWC member. The uncle has to take the children to their mother twice a week.