It seems to me that the government of Nepal is acting responsibly here, i.e., taking steps to ensure that the kumaris' well-being is going to be taken care of. The fact that they are "...visited by thousands of devotees..." means that although they may be secluded within the temple, they are also very visible to the point where obvious abuse or neglect would be noticed. Some things the source mentions that the clip left out were that the court's directive orders attention to the girls' health care and education, and that they already receive a government stipend.

Nepal is obviously a society in transition, between a traditional (one might want to say Medieval) society and a modern one. I...

It seems to me that the government of Nepal is acting responsibly here, i.e., taking steps to ensure that the kumaris' well-being is going to be taken care of. The fact that they are "...visited by thousands of devotees..." means that although they may be secluded within the temple, they are also very visible to the point where obvious abuse or neglect would be noticed. Some things the source mentions that the clip left out were that the court's directive orders attention to the girls' health care and education, and that they already receive a government stipend.

Nepal is obviously a society in transition, between a traditional (one might want to say Medieval) society and a modern one. It can do great harm to a culture to bring that change on too quickly, removing the foundations of the old ways before building the new. The United States was a notable exception, since the people who came from overseas to build that country deliberately left their old ways behind. This is why the American Revolution succeeded where the French one failed - and Nepal is older than both those countries put together.

As I see it, the practice of kumari will eventually fall into disuse,