'Make collective efforts to check child labour'

In order to check child labour, people of all stratas of the society would have to come forward and play important role, said 1st Class Judicial Magistrate Manish Kumar Dubey at a legal literacy camp on the Child labour Prohibition Day held in Palidih village.

Apprising the villagers about the constitutional rights of children, the JM asked people to make collective efforts to check employment of child labour. In order to stop child labour, he said that the person employing child labour should be socially boycotted.

The judge told the villagers that child labour was a social evil and a crime, therefore, it should be completely stopped. He said that people, who sent their minor children to work, should be made aware of the evil. The judge said that on one hand, the children are deprived of education and on the other, it hampers their physical and mental development also.

The judicial magistrate told the villagers about the laws relating to the child marriage, witchcraft, atrocities and human trafficking also.