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BANGALORE, JAN. 9. Elimination of domestic child labour by educating parents, employers and residents of the locality was the focus of a child labour meet organised in Jayanagar by a voluntary organisation, Stree Jagruthi Samiti, here on Sunday. The meeting was part of a project to eliminate domestic child labour in Bangalore that aims at reaching out to children working as domestic help. This is a joint initiative of the Karnataka Government, the district administration and the Labour Department, the United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) and a number of voluntary organisations taken up in J.P. Nagar, HAL, Indiranagar, Koramangala, Jayanagar, Yeshwanthpur and Malleswaram. According to Gita Menon of Stree Jagruthi Samiti, the organisation has been able to identify 136 children involved in child labour in Jayanagar, aged between eight and 13. Of these, 20 are full time domestic workers and the samiti has been able to rescue seven of them, she said. Many of these children have been sent to residential homes run by non-governmental organisations and negotiations are on with parents to take them back and send them to school. The part-time workers are now going to a day care centre in the area run by the samiti, she said. Vasudev Sharma of Childs Rights Trust said domestic child labour was a difficult problem to tackle and urged residents of Jayanagar who has come for the meeting to speak against and discourage domestic child labour. Some children put up a skit on human rights.
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