Judge appeals to stakeholders to join hands to eradicate child labour
Expressing serious concern over child labour, Principal District and Sessions Judge H.J. Marulasiddaradhya has appealed to all stakeholders to join hands to eradicate the practice
Expressing serious concern over child labour, Principal District and Sessions Judge H.J. Marulasiddaradhya has appealed to all stakeholders to join hands to eradicate the practice from its root. He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a World Day Against Child Labour function in Yadgir on Friday. He stressed that legal action should be initiated against those who are responsible for child labour. Necessary awareness should be created among parents who are forced to allow their children to take up labour, he said.
“Law not only prevents child labour but also hands out punishment accordingly if a citizen is found using children aged below 14 years as labour,” the judge said. He said that child labour keeps the nation undeveloped and said no child should be deprived of getting an education. If a child is forced to work, he will miss an opportunity to become well-educated and serve the nation, he added.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Ramesh Kolar said that children should be treated on humanitarian grounds by giving them all facilities, including education, to make them the future of the country. Senior Civil Judge and Member-Secretary of District Legal Services Authority Mariyappa administered an oath to the gathering on preventing child labour. Earlier, a jatha to create awareness about ill effects of child labour was taken out. The programme was jointly organised by the district administration, the Zilla Panchayat, the Labour Department, the Education Department, the Women and Family Welfare Department, the District Child Labour Project Society, the District Child Protection Unit, the Police Department and Child Helpline 1098 or 112.
Additional Superintendent of Police Dharanesh and others were present.
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