India, Oct. 13 -- Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], October 13: As the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 completes a decade, Ms. Nidhi Nivedita, Principal Revenue Commissioner and Commissioner, Land Records, Government of Madhya Pradesh, has called for India's child-protection system to make its next transition: from recording what happened to a child to knowing whether the state's intervention actually changed that child's life.

In an article published in The Hindu on September 17, Ms. Nivedita, who earlier served as Commissioner, Women and Child Development, Madhya Pradesh, wrote that the Act's first decade built a substantial institutional and digital architecture. Child Welfare Committees, Juvenile Justice B...