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Andhra Pradesh
Child labourers rescued from stone quarries
Staff Reporter
MUDIGONDA( Khammam dist): Some 40 children, working for long hours along with their parents in the stone quarries of Mudigonda, have been rescued and admitted to a special school being run under the national child-labour project. But many more in the age group of 10 to 15 are still being put to strenuous work such as crushing boulders into gravel and loading materials into tractors and lorries.
Despite efforts to enroll them into the special school, their parents are against pulling them out of work that fetches the family an extra income ranging from Rs. 600 to Rs. 800 a month.
Children are reportedly preferred in some quarries because of the low wages paid to them.
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