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For a state with five lakh children below 18 years of age working as child labourers (according to a survey), is the labour department doing enough to tackle this growing menace. Are they ready to take cognizance of the situation and act accordingly? State labour commissioner Sunil Kumar talks to RupaGiri about his plan of action and how he intends to go about accomplishing his mission of abolishing child labour. After assuming charge on February 11 this year, he has been working tirelessly to eradicate child labour, dispose 17,517 cases that are pending with the labour courts and prevent migration of labourers to other states. The main reason behind migration is that labourers tend to believe other states have better opportunities compared to their home state. We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with three states namely Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Chattisgarh, which will enable us to keep a track of the number of migrant labourers in these states and help us ensure that all the welfare schemes are availed by them there. Similarly, migrant labourers to our state will be assured of all the welfare schemes and wages as per the guidelines of the central government. “We have two teams of Labour Enforcement Officers (LEO) in two schedules, one which looks after the small industries and another who inspects the agricultural sector. Whenever there is a breach of norms, we take immediate action and lodge a case in the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) courts. Under the Inter State Migrant Action Plan, we register the number of migrants at the panchayat level. The labourers are registered by panchayats before going to other states. We issue green cards and red cards to those who give the name of the state where they are migrating and who do not disclose the state of migration, respectively. This is how we keep a track of them and work accordingly.”
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child labourers, labour, child labour, migration, state, laboureres, states, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Chattisgarh, welfare schemes, opportunities, migrant, Inter State Migrant
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