Lok Sabha Question No. 215 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-03
Subject: National Child Labour Project
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Umesh G. Jadhav

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 215 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.02.2020

## NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT

215. DR. UMESH G. JADHAV:

Will the Minister of LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)whether any notification has been issued in all districts of the country
- regarding National Child Labour Project (NCLP) societies;
- (b)if so, the details thereof;
- (c)the details of the new NCLP societies set up in order to complete new
- Central Sector for rehabilitation of bonded labourers;
- (d)whether  it  is  true  that  NCLP  Scheme  has  been  discontinued  in Karnataka; and
- (e)if so, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) to (c): The  Government    had  started  the  National  Child  Labour Project  (NCLP)  Scheme  in  year  1988  to  rehabilitate  working  children rescued from any occupations or processes  as mentioned in part 'B'  of the  Schedule  to  the  Child  and  Adolescent  Labour  (Prohibition  and Regulation) Act, 1986. The scheme is reviewed and evaluated from time to time for its effective implementation.

The  entire  project  is  implemented  through  District  Project Society  (DPS)  under  the  Chairmanship  of  administrative  head  of  the district, namely; District Magistrate/Collector/Deputy Commissioner of the District.    The  new  DPS  is  set  up  based  on  the  survey  conducted  in  the districts  of  the  country.  Presently  the  scheme  is  sanctioned  in  324 districts of India. The detail of such districts is annexed.

- (d):
- No, Sir.
- (e): Question does not arise.
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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  215  for  03.02.2020  BY DR.  UMESH  G.  JADHAV REGARDING NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT.

|   Sl. No. | Name of State   |   No. of Sanctioned NCLP Districts |   No. of Operational sanctioned Districts | Name of District (Operational districts are in bold)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|-----------|-----------------|------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh  |                                 13 |                                         5 | Anantapur, Chittor, Kadapa, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore , Prakasam, Srikakulam , Vizianagaram, Vishakhapatnam, West Godavari, East Godavari, and Krishna .                                                                                                          |
|         2 | Assam           |                                  5 |                                         2 | Nagaon, Kamrup, Bongaigaon, Nalbari and Lakhimpur                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|         3 | Bihar           |                                 24 |                                         0 | Nalanda, Saharsa, Jamui, Katihar, Araria, Gaya, East Champaran, West Champaran, Madhepura, Patna, Supaul, Samastipur, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Nawada, Khagaria, Sitamarhi, Kishanganj, Begusarai, Banka, Saran, Purnia and Bhagalpur                  |
|         4 | Chhattisgarh    |                                  8 |                                         0 | Durg, Bilaspur, Rajnandgaon, Surguja, Raigarh, Raipur, Dantewada and Korba                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|         5 | Gujarat         |                                  9 |                                         3 | Surat , Panchmahal, Kutch (Bhuj) , Banaskantha, Dahod, Vadodara , Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad and Rajkot                                                                                                                                                                |
|         6 | Haryana         |                                  3 |                                         2 | Gurgaon, Faridabad and Panipat                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|         7 | Jammu & Kashmir |                                  3 |                                         1 | Srinagar, Jammu and Udhampur                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|         8 | Jharkhand       |                                  8 |                                         5 | Garwha, Sahibganj , Dumka, Pakur, West Singhbhum (Chaibasa), Ranchi, Palamu, and Hazaribagh                                                                                                                                                                      |
|         9 | Karnataka       |                                 17 |                                         4 | Bijapur, Raichur, Dharwad, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore Urban, Belgaum , Koppal, Devangere, Mysore, Bagalkot, Chitradurga, Gulbarga, Bellary , Kolar, Mandya, Havery and Tumkur.                                                                                   |
|        10 | Madhya Pradesh  |                                 22 |                                         8 | Mandsaur, Gwalior , Ujjain , Barwani, Rewa, Dhar, East Nimar(Khandwa), Rajgarh , Chhindwara, Shivpuri, Sidhi, Guna, Shajapur, Ratlam, West Nimar(Khargon), Jhabua, Damoh , Sagar, Jabalpur, Satna, Indore and Katni .                                            |
|        11 | Maharashtra     |                                 18 |                                        11 | Solapur, Thane, Sangli, Jalgaon , Nandurbar, Nanded, Nasik, Yavatmal, Dhule, Beed, Amravati, Jalna, Aurangabad, Gondia , Mumbai Suburban, Pune, Buldana and Parbhani .                                                                                           |
|        12 | Nagaland        |                                  1 |                                         0 | Dimapur                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|        13 | Odisha          |                                 24 |                                         3 | Angul, Balasore, Bargarh, Bolangir, Cuttack, Deogarh , Gajapati (Udayagiri), Ganjam, Jharsuguda , Kalahandi, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Jajpur, Keonjhar , Dhenkenal, Khurda, Nayagarh and Sundergarh. |
|        14 | Punjab          |                                  3 |                                         3 | Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Amritsar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

| 15.   | Rajasthan     |   27 |   1 | Jaipur, Udaipur, Tonk, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Alwar , Jalore, Churu, Nagaur, Chittaurgarh, Banswara , Dhaulpur, Sikar, Dungarpur, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Jhunjhunu, Bundi, Jhalawar, Pali, Bhilwara, Sri Ganganagar, Barmer, Dausa, Hanumangarh, Kota and Baran.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|-------|---------------|------|-----|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 16.   | Tamil Nadu    |   18 |  15 | Chidambaranar/Toothikudi (Tuticorin), Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Vellore, Salem, Tiruchirapallli, Tirunelveli, Krishnagiri, Chennai, Erode, Dindigul, Theni. Kanchipuram, Thiruvannamallai, Tiruvallur , Pudukkottai , Nammakkal and Virudhunagar .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 17.   | Telangana     |   31 |   3 | Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Nizamabad , Rangareddy, Warangal, Nalgonda, Medak, Mehbubnagar, Adilabad, Mancherial, Nirmal, Komuram Bheem Asifabad, Jagtiyal, Warrangal (Urban), Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Jangaon, Sangareddy, Siddipet, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Jogulambab Gajwal, Suryapet, Medchal Malkajgiri, Vikarabad, Mahabubabad, Pedapally, Rajanna Sircilla, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri and Kamareddy .                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 18.   | Uttar Pradesh |   56 |   8 | Varanasi, Mirzapur , Bhadohi (Sant Ravi Das Nagar), Bulandshahar, Saharanpur, Azamgarh, Bijnour, Gonda, Kheri, Bahraich, Balrampur , Hardoi , Barabanki , Sitapur, Faizabad, Badaun, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar , Kannuaj, Shajahanpur, Rae Bareli , Unnao, Sultanpur, Fatehpur, Shravasti, Pratapgarh , Basti, Sonebhadra, Mau, Kaushambi, Banda, Ghaziabad, Jaunpur, Rampur, Bareilly, Lucknow, Meerut, Etawah, Agra, Ghazipur, Mathura, Etah, Moradabad, Allahabad, Kanpur Nagar, Aligarh , Ferozabad, Ballia, Sambhal, Hapur, Mainpuri, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gautam Budh Nagar, Jhansi, Lalitpur and Maharajganj. |
| 19.   | Uttarakhand   |   13 |   1 | Dehradun , Chamoli, Nainital, Champawat, Almora, Haridwar, Tehri Garhwal, Pauri Garhwal, Udham Singh Nagar, Pithoragarh, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Uttarkashi.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 20.   | West Bengal   |   20 |  13 | Burdwan, North Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, North 24-Parganas, South 24-Parganas, Kolkata , Murshidabad , West Midnapore, Maldah, Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum , Nadia, Hoogli, Howrah, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, East Midnapore, Alipurduar and Darjeeling.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 21.   | Delhi         |    1 |   0 | NCT of Delhi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|       | Total         |  324 |  88 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

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