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Special teams constituted to eradicate child labour

Staff Reporter

Tirupur: The National Child Labour Project (NCLP) will constitute special teams in each of the 21 village panchayats under Tirupur block and in (Tirupur) Corporation to eradicate child labour in the region before 2010 end, according to D. Vijayakumar, project director, NCLP.

Speaking at a block level training on child labour monitoring system organized by NCLP here on Friday, he said that the teams would comprise representatives of NCLP, Continuing Education Programme and self help groups, government officials, presidents of respective village panchayats.

The teams would carry out door-to-door campaign to enthuse the non-school going and drop out children, who were potential child labourers, to enroll themselves in mainstream education thereby wean them away from employment at a tender age. The members would also educate the parents on the ill-effects of sending their children to workplaces before they had even crossed the teenage.

Mr Vijayakumar said that steps were being taken to rehabilitate the 600 child workers enumerated recently during a census by NCLP and NSS workers in Tirupur Corporation and surrounding municipalities and village panchayats, very soon.

Those children would be either enrolled into special schools run by NCLP or in regular schools.

Presidents of Aandipalayam, Veerapandi and Mangalam village panchayats and representatives of Nehru Yuva Kendra and women belonging to SHGs, attended the training.

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