Chennai: Labour Minister T.M. Anbarasan has stressed the need for officials to intensify inspections to check the presence of child labour and hold review meetings in this regard once in a fortnight. Working children below 14 years should be rescued and admitted to schools.
Also, the campaign against child labour should be stepped up.
Presiding over a State-level meeting here on Thursday to review the work of officials of the Labour Department, he said information boards containing telephone numbers of officials whom the public could contact in case they noticed child labour anywhere should be put up at district collectorates, taluk offices and other places.
Mr. Anbarasan said Labour Inspectors should check constructions where work was on under the contract labour legislation and ensure that various requirements under the law were fulfilled.
Labour Secretary Ramesh Kumar Khanna said a plan should be drawn up and action initiated immediately to obtain a situation where there was no child labour at all in Chennai.
At the meeting it was stressed that checks should be conducted at PDS and other shops and petrol outlets to ensure that the weight and measurement of commodities were correct, according to an official press release.
Labour Commissioner A.Sukumaran was among those who participated in the meeting.
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