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| NCLP scheme to be extended to 600 districts : Fernandes | | | New Delhi | Dec 5
A COMPREHENSIVE proposal to eliminate child labour from the country in the 11th Plan has been submitted to the Planning Commission. The plan envisages a convergent approach to tackle the problem of child labour along with a number of additional components like residential schools.
Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes said the Government is implementing National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme for rehabilitating the child labour withdrawn from work in 250 districts of the country. Under the NCLP Scheme, children withdrawn from work are put in Special Schools where they are provided education, nutrition, vocational training, stipend and regular health check-up, he said and added the objective of the Scheme is to withdraw children from work and mainstream them into the formal system of education. Government is also making efforts to economically empower the families of these children by covering them under other poverty alleviation and income generation schemes of the Government, he said.
The Minister said for the 11th Plan, Government has proposed expansion of the NCLP Scheme to 600 districts and has also proposed some additional features in the Scheme, such as residential schools in big cities for migrant child labour and vocational training for adolescents.
Government has formed a Core Group headed by Secretary Labour & Employment with representatives from other concerned Central Government Ministries, viz. Ministry of Women & Child Development, Human Resources Development, Rural Development, Social Justice and Empowerment and Urban Housing & Poverty Alleviation for convergence with the Schemes of these Ministries for educational rehabilitation of child labour and the economic upliftment of their families. |
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