Ministry of Labour & Employment
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| |EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AS DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND IN DHABAS BANNED FROM OCTOBER | |
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| |12:50 IST | |
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| |The government has decided to prohibit employment of children as domestic servants| |
| |or servants or in dhabas (roadside eateries), restaurants, hotels, motels, | |
| |teashops, resorts, spas or in other recreational centres. The ban has been imposed| |
| |under the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 and will be effective | |
| |from 10th October 2006. The Ministry of Labour has recently issued a notification | |
| |to this effect giving three-month mandatory notice. The Ministry has warned that | |
| |anyone employing children in these categories would be liable to prosecution and | |
| |other panel action under the Act. | |
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| |It may be recalled that the government servants have already been prohibited from | |
| |employing children as domestic servants. By issuing this notification, the | |
| |Government has imposed these restrictions on everyone. | |
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| |The decision has been taken on the recommendation of the Technical Advisory | |
| |Committee on Child Labour headed by the Director General, ICMR. The Committee | |
| |considers the occupations mentioned in the above notification as hazardous for | |
| |children and has recommended their inclusion in the occupations which are | |
| |prohibited for persons below 14 years under the Child Labour (Prohibition & | |
| |Regulation) Act, 1986. The Committee while recommending a ban on employing | |
| |children in these occupations had said that these children are subjected to | |
| |physical violence, psychological traumas and at times even sexual abuse. It said | |
| |that invariably such incidents go unnoticed and unreported as they take place in | |
| |the close confines of the households or dhabas or restaurants. It said that these | |
| |children are made to work for long hours and are made to undertake various | |
| |hazardous activities severely affecting their health and psyche. The Committee has| |
| |said that the children employed in road-side eateries and highway dhabas were the | |
| |most vulnerable lot and were easy prey to sex and drug abuse as they came in | |
| |contact with all kinds of people. The measure is expected to go a long way in | |
| |ameliorating the condition of hapless working children. The Labour Ministry is | |
| |also contemplating to strengthen and expand its rehabilitative Scheme of National | |
| |Child Labour Project, which already covers 250 child labour endemic districts in | |
| |the country. | |
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| |MLD//L -53 (cpi-iw) 1.8.06 | |
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