Lok Sabha Question No. 1729 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-02
Subject: National Child Labour Project
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1729 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.03.2020

## NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT

1729. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE:

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

- (a)the number of districts where the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) is notified and operational, State-wise;
- (b)the  reasons  for  the  low  number  of  districts  where  the  Project  is  being
- implemented;
- (c)the estimated number of child labourers in the country and the number of rescued child labourers, State-wise;
- (d)the  number  of  NCLP  Training  Centres  in  the  country  and  the  number  of child labourers rescued and trained in these Centres, State-wise; and (e)the obstacles faced over rescue of child labourers?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

- (a): The number of districts where the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) is notified and operational, State-wise  is  at Annexure-I.
- (b) to (e): National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme is implemented by the District Project Societies (DPS) under the chairmanship of the administrative  head  of  the    district  namely,  District  Magistrate/Deputy Commissioner/District Collector of the district under administrative control of the State Government. Under the NCLP Scheme, the DPS at District level are required to conduct the baseline survey to identify child labour. Based on the number of child labour identified and rescued  from  the  survey, Special  Training Centres are  opened  for rehabilitation of the child labour in the age group of 9-14 years.

As per census 2011, there were 43.53 lakh main workers in India in the age group of 5-14 years.

At  present  the  number  of  Special  Training  Centers  under  NCLP Scheme is 2500 (approximately).  The number of child labourers rescued and trained in STCs State-wise during the year 2018-19 is at Annexure-II.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok  Sabha Unstarred question No. 1729  for 02.03.2020  by   Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore 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 |                                         6 | 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 |                                         7 | 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 |   3 | 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 |   9 | 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 |  10 | 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 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

Annexure referred to in reply to parts (b) to (e) of Lok Sabha unstarred question No. 1729 for 02.03.2020  by   Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore regarding  National Child Labour Project. and mainstreamed under National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme during the FY 2018-

Number of children who were rescued/withdrawn from work, rehabilitated 19, State-wise:

|   Sl. No. | State          |   2018-19 |
|-----------|----------------|-----------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh |       778 |
|         2 | Assam          |      4562 |
|         3 | Bihar          |         0 |
|         4 | Gujarat        |       101 |
|         5 | Haryana        |       171 |
|         6 | Jharkhand      |      1225 |
|         7 | Karnataka      |       763 |
|         8 | Madhya Pradesh |      4910 |
|         9 | Maharashtra    |      8122 |
|        10 | Nagaland       |       111 |
|        11 | Punjab         |       915 |
|        12 | Rajasthan      |         0 |
|        13 | Tamil Nadu     |      2534 |
|        14 | Telangana      |       935 |
|        15 | Uttar Pradesh  |      8020 |
|        16 | West Bengal    |     17137 |

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