As many as 2,90,000 children were rescued from child labour across India during the past four years. According to labour Ministry’s reply to lok Sabha on Monday, the majority of the rescued kids are from the States of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Odisha, UP, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The statistics provided by labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, In 2012-13, around 73,000 kids and in 2013-14, around 64,000 kids were saved from the raids conducted by various agencies. In 2014-15, 1,17,000 kids and till Septmeber, 3500 kids were saved from various States. “Considering the nature of the problem of child labour, Government is following a multipronged strategy. It comprises of statutory and legislative measures, rehabilitation of children withdrawn from work through specific scheme and universal elemnetray education supplemented with economic rehabilitation of their families by way of convergence with existing programmes and schemes. Government is implementing the National Child labour Project (NClP) Scheme,” said labour Minister to the questions posed by MPs Ashok Chavan and Gajanan Kirtikar.The minister said that the Census 2011 figure show a decline in the category of workers in the age group of 5-14 to 43.53 lakh from 1.21 crore. Dattatreya also informed the house that as many as 3,340 prosecution were launched in 2014 under the Child labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act 1986 where as the number were 4,899 and 4,731 in 2013 and 2012 respectively.