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Court seeks blueprint for rehabilitation

Staff Reporter

Child labourers rescued from factories

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Union Labour Secretary to convene a meeting of representatives of the State Governments and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and prepare a blueprint for rehabilitation of child labourers rescued from factories and other places in the country.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the Labour Secretary to convene the meeting within a fortnight and file a report to the Court on October 24.

The direction came on a petition by Ashok Aggarwal of a non-government organisation, Social Jurist, seeking directions for rehabilitation of child labourers rescued from working places across the country.

Mr. Aggarawal had raised the matter in the High Court in 2005 by bringing to its notice the plight of child labourers belonging to Bihar who had been rescued from zari factories here following raids at the factories by the Delhi police.

He had approached the High Court following reports that several of them had returned to the factories from where they had been rescued earlier.

The petition said the State Government had no plans to rehabilitate such children.

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