Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration, Labour Department and National Child Labour Project had organised an event to flag off vehicles to create awareness against employing child (below 14 years) and adolescent (above 14 years) labourers. The vehicles were flagged off by District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Member-Secretary and senior Civil Judge Devaraj Boothe, in front of the Assistant Labour Commissioner’s Office at Kuvempunagar here yesterday. 

The vehicles will travel across the district especially to places where children are employed and create awareness against employing children for work.

Speaking on the occasion, Judge Devaraj Boothe said that children and adolescents, working as labourers should be freed and added that parents should stop sending their under-aged children to work in various shops, garages etc. and instead send them to schools.

Pointing out that it is a crime to employ children and adolescents for work, Devaraj Boothe said that a child can help his or her parents at their workplace only after attending classes at schools or after school hours.

Assistant Labour Commissioner Nazia Sultana, who too spoke, said that the awareness jatha with the theme ‘No to Child Labour, Yes to Education’ was being organised to create awareness against child labour and help free such children and send them to schools. 

She urged public to call Children Helpline No. 1098, if they come across child labourers.

District Labour Officer Rajesh Jadhav and others were present.