For combating the menace of child labour, Punjab Labour and Human Resource Department has approved a 5-year project 'Combating worst form of child labour'; it is being implemented in four districts of the province (Jhang, Layyah, Jehlum and Chakwal). Punjab Labour and Human Resource Secretary Hassan Iqbal disclosed this during a meeting with the District Co-ordination Officers (DCOs) of the respective districts here on Tuesday, disclosed an official.
He said the Punjab government is focused and committed to eradicate the child labour from the province.

Bhubaneswar: School and mass education minister Pratap Jena on Tuesday said that special strategies and plan of action were being taken up to implement the Right to Education Campaign-2012 and it was decided to finalise the District Plan for the RTE campaign by June 5. Briefing newsmen here, Jena said that core committees would be formed in all district project offices and the first meeting as to how to carry out the campaign to create awareness to mobilise students to schools would be held by June 5 and by this time.

Berhampur: A probe has been ordered into the allegation that child labourers were being engaged in executing works of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Ganjam district. District Level Monitoring Committee will inquire into the allegation of child labour engaged in the MGNREGS work, district collector Krishan Kumar said here on Tuesday.

In the wake of growing urbanisation, children living in cities have been prone to more risks than ever before, according to a UNICEF report.

“Urbanisation leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services,” said the report titled ‘States of the World‘s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World’ released today in the Capital. UNICEF representative Hana Singer and National Planning Commission Vice-chairman Deependra Bahadur Kshetry jointly launched the report.

women working in mining or stone crushing units often give opium to their infants to keep them quiet while they are working.
JAIPUR: A report prepared by a few NGOs on child labour in Rajasthan has claimed that women working in mining or stone crushing units often give opium to their infants to keep them quiet while they are working.

NEW DELHI: The state government may be trying to project Delhi as a world-class city, but the findings by "India's Child Rights Index", a first-of-its-kind report released on Wednesday, paint a different picture. The city ranks 12 in the country when it comes to ensuring well-being of children - assessed using 10 major indicators, including sex ratio, early childhood care, education, health and crime against children. Delhi's lead in providing education to children is offset by its poor pupil-teacher ratio of 1:100.

Taking serious note of the increasing number of child labourers in the Bt Cottonseed farms of North Gujarat, a team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), led by Dr Yogesh Dube has issued necessary directions to the State government.