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“Children are the aboriginal of the nation. Books should beryllium successful their hands, not tools,” said Senior Civil Judge Nagaraju S. Ankasadoddi, calling for corporate efforts to eradicate kid labour and safeguard children’s rights.
Speaking aft inaugurating the World Day Against Child Labour programme astatine the Krishnaraja Auditorium of Maharaja Government Pre-University College present connected Friday, helium said creating consciousness against kid labour and protecting children’s rights was a shared work of society.
The programme was jointly organised by the territory administration, the District Legal Services Authority, the Labour Department, the Women and Child Development Department, the School Education Department, the Police Department, the Social Welfare Department, the District Child Labour Project Society, Childline 1098, and voluntary organisations.
Expressing interest implicit the continuity of kid labour, Mr. Nagaraju said galore children continued to beryllium forced into enactment distant from nationalist scrutiny. He urged citizens to instantly alert the authorities whenever they came crossed instances of kid labour truthful that the affected children could beryllium rescued and fixed opportunities for a amended future.
He noted that poverty, illiteracy, societal inequality, and the deficiency of entree to acquisition were among the large factors driving kid labour. The signifier not lone deprives children of their puerility but besides affects their physical, mental, and intelligence development, helium said.
Pointing retired that the employment of children beneath 14 years of property successful hazardous and commercialized activities is prohibited nether the law, helium said laws unsocial could not destruct the occupation unless each national fulfilled his oregon her societal responsibility.
Assistant Labour Commissioner Lalitabai stressed the value of acquisition successful eliminating societal evils and discrimination, and urged students to worth acquisition and clip absorption arsenic tools for idiosyncratic maturation and societal progress.
Child Welfare Committee chairperson Ravichandra spoke astir the State-wide Campaign Against Child Labour (CAC) conducted by RLHP and appealed to the nationalist to study kid labour cases done Childline 1098. He said acquisition was the top plus parents could supply their children with.
Senior advocator Sundar Raj N. of the District Legal Services Authority highlighted the agelong conflict against kid labour and recalled the contributions of Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, who rescued thousands of children from exploitative labour. Child labour could beryllium eradicated lone done sustained nationalist awareness, assemblage participation, and the strict enforcement of laws, helium said.
Child Protection Officer Asha, People’s Park School headmaster John, ACP Mohammed Sharif, District Labour Officer Chetan Kumar, Maharaja College main Udayashankar, District Child Labour Project Society Director Mallikarjun H.C., and Gem Josh of Don Bosco Institution were present.
Earlier, schoolhouse children took retired an consciousness rally successful the metropolis arsenic a portion of the World Day Against Child Labour.
