A two-member team of Jharkhand State Child labour Welfare Commission visited Churchu block of Hazaribagh district on Thursday morning and in the evening, reviewed the works done in the district for the benefit of child labors in a meeting held at Circuit House, Hazaribagh.
Members of the commission Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Dr. Manoj Kumar started their visit of Churchu block from Charhi Kasturba Vidyalaya where the situation was pathetic. They instructed the officials of District Education Department to immediately take care of the situation and provide all the requisite facilities to the students.
From here they went to different villages of the block and talked with the villagers about the drought condition and distributed food items among the children. The block has recently been declared open defecation free and in this visit the team members tried to take the consent of the villagers regarding appointments of Bal Mitras in the block. They also talked with the block officials, local body representatives and political party leaders of the block on this matter.
In the evening a meeting took place in Circuit House in which officials of education department, labor department, welfare department, police department and members of District Child labor Task Force Committee were present. In this meeting the team members reviewed the reports of different departments regarding welfare of children especially child labors.