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‘Ostracise those employing children'

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Nalgonda Collector calls for banishing child labour at legal awareness programme
Officials told to regularly conduct raids on establishments employing children

NALG0NDA: Those employing child labourers should be subjected to social boycott and none should render any service to them, district Collector N. Mukteswara Rao observed here on Sunday. Inaugurating a legal awareness programme organised by the Labour Department and Rajiv Vidya Mission, to mark the World Anti-child Labour Day, he called upon everyone to take it as a social responsibility to banish child labour.

Mr. Rao asked officials to regularly conduct raids on establishments employing children. They should immediately respond whenever such instances are highlighted in the media.

Penal provisions

Senior civil judge Ranoji said if officials do their duty properly and efficiently, child labour could be eliminated from society. He explained the penal provisions for forcing child labourers to work and expressed distress that only a handful of cases were being registered. The judge noted that legislations alone would not be enough to eradicate child labour. Officials should have commitment to implement the laws and people should be made aware of such legal provisions.

Junior civil judge Aruna Kumari suggested that children employed by affluent families, factories and as agricultural labour should be identified and enrolled in schools. She pleaded for a permanent court building in the town to try juvenile offences.

Beemarjun Reddy and Jawahar, members of the legal services authority, suggested that anganwadi workers should be involved in identifying child labourers who can be enrolled in schools.

N. Narasimha Reddy, president, Nalgonda District Bar Association, educationist Chinna Venkat Reddy, Seshu Kumari, project director, Women and Child Welfare, Babu Bukya, project officer, Rajiv Vidya Mission, were present.

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