{"id":1005722,"date":"2026-04-29T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005722"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:08:28","slug":"delhi-child-helpline-gets-94000-calls-last-year-action-only-on-7500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/delhi-child-helpline-gets-94000-calls-last-year-action-only-on-7500\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi child helpline gets 94,000 calls last year, action only on 7,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In Delhi, distress doesn\u2019t always arrive as a crisis; it often rings in as a question. Last year, nearly 94,000 calls poured into the child helpline. However, only about 7,500 translated into active interventions. The gap between the incoming calls and real emergencies reveals a system caught between urgent rescues and everyday help. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it a holiday tomorrow? Has the exam been cancelled? Elder sister is hitting me&#8230; The bag load is 12 kgs, what to do&#8230;?\u201d and endless questions like these keep coming up at \u20181098\u2019, a free emergency helpline for children in distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In Delhi, distress doesn\u2019t always arrive as a crisis; it often rings in as a question. Last year, nearly 94,000 calls poured into the child helpline. However, only about 7,500 translated into active interventions. The gap between the incoming calls and real emergencies reveals a system caught between urgent rescues and everyday help. \u201cIs it a holiday tomorrow? Has the exam been cancelled? Elder sister is hitting me&#8230; The bag load is 12 kgs, what to do&#8230;?\u201d and endless questions like these keep coming up at \u20181098\u2019, a free emergency helpline for children in distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}