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Juvenile Justice in India for last few decades has been generating bundles of thoughts and ideas. It has consistently seen jurisprudential debates and innumerous legislative developments. In spite of the fact that the system has been under constant evaluation, experience reveals that the direction and pace of juvenile justice legislations has not been guided by the specific needs and number of children requiring care and protection. Instead, the approach has been fragmented, piecemeal and is based on the pattern of short term vision and goals. As the consequence of this the laws and policies have suffered from the vice of faulty implementation. They have posed several challenges in rendering justice to children. There is a plenty of research, reports, judicial pronouncements echoing this reality.