Mysuru DC favours residential school for children rescued from child labour

Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy connected Tuesday said that a abstracted slope relationship volition soon beryllium opened to cod donations from the public, arsenic portion of an inaugural to marque Karnataka a kid labour-free State.

Awareness volition besides beryllium created crossed the territory to promote nationalist information successful the campaign.

Presiding implicit a gathering of the district-level executive, task force, and wide committee here, Mr. Reddy said the Commissioner of the Labour Department has instructed officials to motorboat a State-wide donation thrust to enactment the implicit eradication of kid labour.

He stressed that the relationship created for receiving contributions should beryllium managed successful a transparent and accountable manner.

Mr. Reddy directed officials to organise online grooming sessions for Superintendents of Police and inspectors, with the enactment of section assets persons, for the effectual implementation of the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.

Before rehabilitating children rescued from labour, authorities indispensable measure the economical conditions of their families and make consciousness astir assorted authorities payment schemes that could amended their fiscal stableness and forestall children from being pushed into labour again, Mr. Reddy said.

Monthly district-level meetings were already being conducted, and akin meetings would besides beryllium held astatine the taluk level nether the chairmanship of Tahsildars, for which authoritative connection volition beryllium issued, helium added.

Proposal for residential school

The children rescued during raids volition beryllium rehabilitated astatine kid attraction institutions nether the Women and Child Development Department.

Mr. Reddy asked the Labour Department to research the anticipation of establishing a abstracted residential schoolhouse for specified children and taxable a connection to the government.

Areas with higher concentrations of migrant labourers indispensable beryllium identified, helium said, and consciousness programmes should beryllium held to guarantee that children are enrolled successful schools. Special drives focusing connected nutritional enactment for susceptible children indispensable besides beryllium taken up.

Raids and rescue data

Deputy Labour Commissioner Lalitha Bai informed the gathering that betwixt April and October successful 2025–26, a full of 742 raids were conducted, during which 3 kid labourers and 17 teen labourers were rescued, registering 20 cases.

Chetan, Labour Officer; Uday Kumar, Deputy Director, School Education Department; Srinivas of Madilu Organisation; representatives of assorted NGOs, and different officials were present.