JOIN USChild Rights organisations in Bangalore have hailed the Centre’s decision to have a comprehensive ban on child labour.
The Bangalore Chapter of Campaign for Child Labour (CACL) has stated that the move came 20 years after the country decided to implement child rights and said that those under 14 years of age should be treated as ‘children out of school rather than cild labourers.
Once these children will be classified as out of school children engaged in child labour, the Education Department and the Labour Department have to work together to ensure that these children are not only removed from child labour, but enrolled in schools as well, a release by CACL said.
“Enrolling children into school under RTE would drastically decrease child labour, child marriage, sexual harassment and other problems that persist,” the organisation
stated.