How to get help for a child in distress
Call Child Helpline 1098 for children needing care and protection. In immediate danger, also call 112. Keep child’s location and basic details ready.
Suryalayam Protection Directory
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Call Child Helpline 1098 for children needing care and protection. In immediate danger, also call 112. Keep child’s location and basic details ready.
For life-threatening danger, violence, stalking, trafficking, assault or threats, call 112 first. Share exact location and ask for police emergency response.
Construction workers generally need registration with the MP Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board before welfare benefits can be accessed.
For non-emergency public service or departmental complaints, use CM Helpline 181 or the CM Helpline portal. Use 112 for immediate danger.
Use the SHe-Box portal for workplace sexual harassment complaints. Complaints are routed to the concerned authority having jurisdiction.
Use NCPCR eBaal Nidan to register a complaint about child rights violations. For immediate danger or rescue, call 1098 or 112 first.
For violence or distress, call emergency help if unsafe, then contact nearest Sakhi One Stop Centre for counselling, police facilitation, legal aid, medical aid and shelter referral.
For Yanam immediate danger call 112 or local police. For regional grievance routing contact the Regional Administrator. For labour welfare, use Rural Labour Welfare Centre.
For labour complaints contact the Labour Officer or Labour Commissioner. For Karaikal region use the Karaikal grievance contact; for unorganised worker portal support use e-Shram helpdesk.
Use 112 or 100 for immediate danger, 1098 for child protection support and POCSO support guidelines for victim support and service coordination.