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Labour Minister T.M. Anbarasan (right), with the children, who were rescued from the Perungudi – Pallikaranai dump, on Saturday. Labour Commissioner A. Sukumaran (left) and Labour Secretary Ramesh Kumar Khanna are in the picture. Chennai: Four children working as rag-pickers in the garbage dump in Perungudi — Pallikaranai were rescued by the Labour Department on Saturday. Labour Minister T.M. Anbarasan met Nagu, Nandhini, Vinitha and Babu and directed that they be admitted into a special school. The children are aged between 9 and 12 years. Labour Commissioner A. Sukumaran said the children would be admitted to a transit school close to their neighbourhood so that they could pick up some learning skills before joining a mainstream school. After a few hours at the transit school everyday, they could go back home. The Labour Department has also written to the Chennai Collectorate and the Chennai Corporation to check for prevalence child labour in the garbage dumps, he said. Rescue and rehabilitation of child labourers, especially in hazardous occupations, requires great care. G. Lally, assistant State coordinator of the Indus Child Labour Project, said a novel approach that would motivate children to stick with the rehabilitation programme was essential. “Some children feel that being put in a home or an institution is a greater punishment than being asked to work. Their world is very different and what we think of as rehabilitation may not suit them,” she said. Ms. Lally recommended a project similar to the mobile school for children who sell ‘sundal’ on the beach that can be designed for rag-picking children. Playing music and screening films would draw their interest. Extensive counselling and a one-to-one teaching approach would be advisable, she said. Children engage in rag-picking not only in the Perungudi dump yard but also in the Kodungaiyur dump in north Chennai.
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