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Labour Department in Vijayawada identified seven child labourers at Vijayawada railway station and shifted them to Navajeevan Bal Bhavan Shelter. According to D Anjaneya Reddy, assistant labour commissioner and NCLP director, on Wednesday night, they identified seven child workers. One Mithun from Bihar was taking four children - Rajan Kumar (15), Santhosh Kumar (15), Akhilesh Kumar (14) and Dileep Kumar (15) from Bihar to work in MK Solvent Company at Challakere in Bellary district of Karnataka. He said they would be produced before the Child Welfare Committee and the parents of the four children will be contacted and counselled before handing the children back to them. Reddy said they had also identified three more teenagers-Lakshman (16), Ganesh (14) and Srinivas (14) of Madhya Pradesh, who were brought to Krishna district by one Sarita Punam for working at brick kilns in Gudivada of Krishna district. The boys were counselled and after producing them before Child Welfare Committee, they will be handed over to their parents, who are being contacted.
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labour department, Vijaywada, Navajeevan Bal Bhavan Shelter, Bihar, child worker, Child Welfare Committee, Madhya Pradesh, brick kiln
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