Three child labourers rescued by the Bokaro district labour department have run away. Officials had rescued the boys on April 29 from DVC’s Bokaro Thermal Power Station (BTPS) ash pond site, as they were working for a transport company. They were with a NGO, Mahila Jan Swastha Shishu Kendra, at Kailash Nager in Chas. An FIR has been lodged at Chas Police Station on May 1.
“A showcause notice will be served on DVC Bokaro officials and an NGO too, for their negligence,” said Sunil Kumar, labour Commissioner of Jharkhand.
According to a survey conducted by the Action Against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children about five lakhs children (below 18 years) are child labourers in Jharkhand’ working as domestic help, coal and rag-pickers, daily-wage earner and working on mechanics too.
While more than thirty thousand girls are trafficked every year to work as domestic helps, labourers and for prostitution.