A team of officials of different departments and NGO Childline has rescued nine child labourers from different hotels and restaurants of Hazaribagh town in the ongoing Operation Muskan since last two days. The rescued child labours have been kept under the supervision of local officials of Childline and soon they will be handed over to their parents.
On Thursday, the team constituted for Operation Muskan started searching child labourers in hotels, restaurants and other places of the town. On the first day of this operation the team rescued four child labors, two each from the hotels situated at District Board Chowk and in DVC Colony.
On the second day of the operation, the team members inspected the hotels and restaurants situated near Government bus stand and private bus stand area. It rescued five child labours on Friday. All 9 rescued children have been kept in local Childline office and the officials are trying to contact their guardians.
The team constituted for implementing Operation Muskan includes DCWO Sanjay Prasad, Sanjay Kumar of childline, labor officer, inspector Raviranjan and others said that the operation will go on in future also. FIRs have been registered against the owners of the hotels and restaurants from where these child labors have been rescued and they will be punished as per law.
Meanwhile guardians of two rescued child labors reached Hazaribagh on Friday evening. The officials of child line enquired about the reason of sending their wards to work in hotels instead of sending them to school. They said that their economic condition is so bad that it looked them the simple option to earn some money and to save their wards from hunger.