Government Schemes

In 2020-21, over 58,000 youngsters were saved across India from work, restored and integrated beneath the National kid Labour Project, in keeping with figures tabled in Lok Sabha on Mon by Minister of State for Labour and Employment RameshwarTeli.

·        National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme The Ministry of Labour and Employment is also implementing the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme since 1988 for rehabilitation of child labourers.

·        Under the NCLP, the kids within the cohort of 9-14 years square measure saved / withdrawn from work and registered within the NCLP Special coaching Centres, wherever theyre supplied with bridge education, vocational education, mid-day meal, stipend, health care, etc.

·        before being integrated into formal education system. the kids within the cohort of 5-8 years square measure directly connected to the formal education system through an in depth coordination with the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

·        To make sure the effective social control of the provisions of the kid Labour Act and sleek implementation of NCLP theme, a fanatical on-line portal named PENCIL (Platform for Effective social control for No kid Labour) is developed so as to create the NCLP productive through higher observation and implementation.

·        The Portal connects Central Government to State Government(s), District(s), all Project Societies and therefore the general public

·        Government measures: Asian nation is committed for demolition of kid labour from the country.

·        The Government has amended the kid Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 and enacted the kid Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) change Act, 2016.

·        It provides for complete prohibition of labor or employment of youngsters below fourteen years of agein any occupation and method and prohibition of adolescents within the cohort of fourteen to eighteen years in venturesome occupations and processes.