§54 — Inspection of institutions registered under this Act

(1) The State Government shall appoint inspection committees for the State and district, as the case may be, for all institutions registered or recognised to be fit under this Act for such period and for such purposes, as may be prescribed. (2) Such inspection committees shall mandatorily conduct visits to all facilities housing children in the area allocated, at least once in three months in a team of not less than three members, of whom at least one shall be a woman and one shall be a medical officer, and submit reports of the findings of such visits within a week of their visit, to the [District Magistrate], for further action. (3) On the submission of the report by the inspection committee within a week of the inspection, appropriate action shall be taken within a month by the [District Magistrate] and a compliance report shall be submitted to the State Government.