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As high as 80 per cent of migrant workers’ children in the state either drop out of school or receive no education as they get sucked into the labour force at an early age, a study conducted by Child Rights and You (CRY) has revealed. The report was released to mark World Day Against Child Labour, which falls on June 12. The study was conducted by CRY in collaboration with Vanchit Vikas Sansthan of Ahmednagar district to monitor the health, academic and nutrition status of children working in 10 brick kilns in four sub-districts. “Most kids around kiln areas get drawn into labour,” said CRY western regional director Kreeanne Rabade. Children’s ‘training’ includes errands such as arranging bricks for drying, and collecting broken and improperly-moulded bricks. This, despite the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, prohibiting children under 14 from working in brick kilns. A proposed amendment to the bill, intending to align it with the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, seeks to dispense with the provision that makes brick kilns a hazardous process for children above the age of 14, Rabade pointed out. “The National Policy of Children, 2013, declares that children from 0-18 years need to be protected… Yet, 14 to 18-year-olds are unprotected by the very laws designed to ensure their rights,” Rabade said. “The RTE Act, 2009, absolves itself of responsibility once children turn 14.”
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brick kilns, migrant children, labour force, education, children, rights, laws, bill, RTE, health, academic, nutrition status, child labour
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