Village panels key to ending child labour, says official

District Women and Child Welfare Officer D. Venkateswari connected Friday directed village-level kid extortion committees to intensify efforts to destruct kid labour and safeguard children’s rights.

Addressing a district-level store for officials of the ICDS, Police and Education Departments astatine the Collectorate, she stressed the request for adjacent inter-departmental coordination to tackle issues affecting children. She said consciousness campaigns should absorption connected Mission Vatsalya and cardinal legislations specified arsenic the Right to Education Act, 2009, Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.