Andhra Pradesh - Kurnool   

Drive to enrol child workers in schools

Special Correspondent

KURNOOL: The district administration will launch a special drive in the next three months to identify and enrol child workers in schools. Collector M. Dana Kishore reviewed with the officials the arrangements for the drive on Monday.

He said mandal-level teams would stay in villages and convince parents to send their wards to schools. A register would be maintained for each village identifying child workers.

The work would begin in the villages where the problem was high.

Each village, including hamlets, would be thoroughly scanned for child workers. Mr. Dana Kishore called upon officials to utilise the 15,000 hostel seats granted to the district by Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy as special measure to tackle child labour problem.

Mr. Kishore said hostels would be reopened in June itself so that child workers could be released much early and admitted to hostels. Special volunteers would be appointed in each subject attached to hostels.

As an incentive, a job card would be given to the family of a child worker, who would be admitted in school, for 300 days under NREGS.

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