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.

Ranchi, Sept. 13: German corporate giant Merck might soon resuscitate Jharkhand’s mica industry if a proposal aimed at tapping 10,000 metric tonnes of the mineral in Koderma and Giridih gets the green light.

The chemical, pharmaceutical and paints behemoth today put forth the demand for mining natural mica from the rich deposits in the two districts after meeting chief minister Arjun Munda.

The number of child labourers has increased in Tangail as poverty forces their parents to send them to work for earning livelihood.
According to a recent study of Society for Social Service, a local non-government organisation, more than 52,000 children below 12 years are doing various odd jobs for earning their bread at twelve upazilas in Tangail.
The study says the number of child labourers is increasing day after day. The number has already increased 7,000 in the current year while it was about 45,000 in last year.

Child labourers in Sylhet city, including those working in risky jobs, have very limited support services, according to the child rights workers in the region.

According to the UNICEF, more than 70,000 child labourers worked in and around the Sylhet city in 2006, of which around 50,000 lived in the city slums.

The number, however, had risen by now as the migration of the rural poor to the city continued, observed Saiful Alam, assistant coordinator of Sylhet activities of a government programme giving basic education to poor working children.

The Labour and Labour Relations Ministry has identified 51 types of dangerous occupations and the ministry will take action against persons who employ anyone under 18 years in these occupations.