There has to be social campaign against child labour: Iynger

Ahmedabad, March 16 (UNI) Vice-Chancellor of Gujarat Vidhyapeth today said a social campaign was needed to fight child labour.

He was speaking at the opening of the two-day workshop on issues of child-labour.

Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute Director General Arun Sutaria stressed on the need to launch an awareness drive against child labour.

There are 211 million child labourers in the world. Of these, the largest number of such labourers are from India.

According to 2001 sensus, India has 12.59 million child laborers.

Uttar Pradesh has 15.31 percent. Child laborers are increasing in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal, while their number is going down in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.

Dr Vidhyut Joshi, Dr Kiran Desai, Dr Sajita, Dr Parthsarathi, Dr Neeta Mehta, Dr Mahavir Jain, Dr Kaushik Rawal, Dr Yogesh Chatti, Dr Sadhana Vora, Mallik Krishnapal, P Subramanyam and Dr Bahadursingh Vasava spoke at the workshop.

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