Child Welfare Committee in association with State police, administration and Child line launched a drive to rescue children from child labours here on Monday.
The Committee also rescued 17 children from such camps.
Action against those involved in employing children in child labour work across the city was taken by the teams by raiding MP Nagar and TT Nagar areas at the same time and action was taken against those found guilty.
The drive was launched after it was found that the number of child labour across the city has increased in the past.
The most prone children were the kids who were found selling evening newspaper at traffic signals and might met accident.
Additional Superintendent of Police Zone 2 Riyaz Iqbal , Assistant labour Commissioner Bhanu Pratap Singh, Assistant labour Officer KM Kheeche, District Empowerment Officer Anurag Joshi and Director of Child Helpline Archana Sahay along with officials and employees of the departments were present during the campaign.