VCCI chief for wiping out
child labour through sensitising, capacity
building
VISAKHAPATNAM: As per International
Labour Organisation (ILO) reports there were 250 million child
labourers in the world. Out of this 61 percent were from Asian
countries.
In India it was put at 11.28 million out of
which Andhra Pradesh had the highest percentage of 1.66. Recent
reports say that the State alone had 3.20 millions, said VBV
Reddy, president of the Vizagapatnam Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (VCCI), Visakhapatnam.
Delivering a key note
address on Monday at a seminar on ‘Elimination of Child Labour’
organised by The Federation of AP Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(FAPCCI), in collaboration with International Labour Organisation
(ILO) - APSBP, CEASE-child labour and Training and Research for
Action (TARA) and launching of publicity material on PMRY
programme, Reddy said that Child labour had been a burning problem
in the world, especially in our country. Elimination of child
labour could be possible by adopting suitable strategies.
Sensitisation and capacity building on child labour was the first
step in this direction.
Managing committee member of
FAPCCI, VV Sanyasi Rao said, the State Government had been giving
top priority to the elimination of child labour and he informed
that FAPCCI was one of the members of the consortium of
CEASE-child labour which was formed in 2001. The FAPCCI had
earlier organised seminars on child labour in Guntur, Hyderabad,
Kurnool, Karimnagar, Mahaboobnagar, Nizamabad and Tirupati, he
said.
Poverty and unplanned families were the main factors
for child labour, he remarked.
District Industries Centre
general manager B Suresh Babu, on implementation of PMRY scheme in
the district, said, the industries department was doing its best
to simplify the procedure of sanctioning loans under the scheme.
He informed that the department had been conducting interviews
every week, (earlier it was once in six months) in order to give
an opportunity to the entrepreneurs. TARA director Pius Mathews
also spoke.
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