New Delhi, Aug 12 - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to stop 'the blame game' and take urgent steps for the welfare of children living in juvenile homes in the capital.

Taking a serious note of the increasing child abuse cases in the child homes, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan said: 'None of us understands the problem of children. The need of the hour is to take concrete steps by working on ground level.'

The court was hearing a public interest petition alleging rampant sexual abuse and ill-treatment of minors lodged in the juvenile homes.

'Why there should not be a committee at the ground level?' it asked the Delhi government counsel.

Government counsel Mukta Gupta submitted that they have already taken steps and are conducting 'surprise visits' at these juvenile homes every month.

On this, Meera Kabir, a volunteer working in this field, submitted before the court that such visits do not solve any purpose as everything is dressed up before the committee visits the child home.

Kabir also cited the case of a boy who once had complained of sexual abuse and then had to be shifted to the Institute Of Human Behaviour And Allied Sciences (IHBAS) for a month.