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Kids rescued

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: As many as 53 children engaged in sorting and grading cherries at a unit on Lawrence Road in North West Delhi were rescued by the State Labour Department following a joint survey and raid conducted in association with some non-government organisations.

While hitherto such practices used to be detected in the unorganised section, a senior Labour Department official said this time a unit, Kaytis Food Preservation, located at 18 Lawrence Road was found employing children. Following specific information by Ashok Aggarwal of Social Jurist, the officials mobilised the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and Delhi police and conducted the raid.

All the children were found engaged in sorting out and grading cherries. Incidentally, in this case the unique aspect was that their parents were also working in the same establishment. In view of this piquant situation, the children were restored to their parents after proper documentation of the raid and the parents were made to give an undertaking that they would not make their children work again.

"The first Transition Education Centre (TEC) was launched along with Prayas under the Indus Child Labour Project, which is a joint Indo-US venture. While this centre has come up at Prayas in Jahangirpuri, 60 more such TECs are proposed to be set up in the near future," an official said.

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