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A squad of officers from the Labour and Road Transport Departments intercepted an autorickshaw, besides called ‘tum tum’ successful the section language, and rescued children being taken for tract labour adjacent Mudnal Cross astatine the outskirts of Yadgir metropolis connected Tuesday.
As galore arsenic 10 minors person been rescued and sent home, advising them to spell to school.
Officers besides advised the parents and operator of the autorickshaw to not prosecute children successful tract enactment but promote them to spell to school.
“Engaging them (children) successful tract enactment amounts to a usurpation of existing instrumentality that legally prevents specified labouring, and we explained to them the Childhood and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Control) Act 1986,” said Riyaz Patel Varkanalli, Planning Director of Child Labour.
Labour Inspector Sangeetha Honnur said that the parents indispensable not prosecute their children successful tract labour and should promote them to prosecute higher studies and assistance them signifier a agleam future.
She said that thoroughfare dramas and consciousness camps volition beryllium organised successful the agrarian areas to make consciousness among villagers.
Road Transport Officers booked a lawsuit against the operator of the vehicle. RTO inspector Prabhakhar and others were present.
