Social organizations working for the upliftment of child labour in India should be interlinked to form networking that is necessary to
eradicate the menace of child labour, said Abinav Sharma, high court lawyer and a social activist. He was speaking at a seminar on Awareness and Sensitization Programme on Child Rights and Child Labour organized by Satya an NGO Social Networking Management and Research held at press club on Friday.
Every year, hundreds of children below 14 years are rescued from various states. Many of them who are rescued in the industrialised states belong to Rajasthan and face the problem of rehabilitation. Hence they are deprived of the benefits of the various government schemes meant for them due to poor networking between NGOs.

Nearly, 50 children of various age groups, rescued from Moradabad brassware industry, recounted at the seminar of how they were forced to work as bonded labour. Many of them said that they were subjected to abuse at the workplace and talked about health hazards related to their work.

Badrinarayan Sharma, additional district project officer, Jaipur talked of several government schemes under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan. He said, “In the urban slums we are running programmes like bridge course which offers free education along with meals twice a day for the rescued children.”

Speakers on the occasion gave several suggestions to the government on how to tackle the problem of child labour that has adversely affected the economy and the society. Sanjay Agarwal, chairman of Satya proposed a model in which rescued children would be asked to persuade other child labourers engaged in commercial activities to leave it.. “District Bonded Vigilance Committee should be formed to monitor the child labour activities in the state. The committee members should be from judiciary, police and people working for this cause,” added Sharma.

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