Arunachal to impose ban on child labour

Itanagar, Oct 05 (UNI) Arunchal Pradesh government has decided to implement ban on child labour in the state from October 10 next, as notified by the Centre on recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). This was disclosed by state labour and employment minister Tatar Kipa during a state level conference on child labour here yesterday. It is pertinent to mention here that around 40,000 children below 14 years of age were engaged as labourers in the state as against 1.26 crore in the country. Stressing on collective effort towards the protection of the vulnerable and powerless children against exploitation and for their suitable rehabilitation, the minister urged upon the deputy commissioners, labour officers to closely monitor and facilitate effective enforcement of the prohibition order and discourage child labour in the state. The minister also called for a strategy to bring mass awareness against child labour in the state. The conference prepared an action plan for implementation of the order, whose components included formation of state level monitoring committee, district level advisory boards and district task force for conducting raids, and creation of corpus fund for addressing the rehabilitation process of rescued child, besides awareness generation among the people and punitive actions under the Act of 1986.

The conference, organised by state labour department identified rehabilitation of rescued child labourers as the most challenging task and called for their education rehabilitation through special schools under National Child Labour Project (NCLP) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), economic rehabilitation of parents of child workers and convergence among various departments to provide them shelter, clothing food etc.

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