Lok Sabha Question No. 2437 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-01
Subject: Child Labour
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Mimi Chakraborty

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2437 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.08.2022

## CHILD LABOUR

2437. MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY:

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

- (a)the details of districts that carried out the preliminary survey regarding
- number of children/ adolescents engaged in hazardous and nonhazardous occupation till date; and
- (b)the details of the beneficiaries provided with cash upon release for initial rehabilitation under rehabilitation of bonded labour therein, age/genderwise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI RAMESWAR TELI)

- (a): Ministry  of  Labour  &  Employment  has  been  implementing  National Child  Labour  Project  (NCLP)  Scheme  for  rehabilitation  of  child  labourers through  District  Project  Societies  (DPS),  which  has  now  been  subsumed under  Samagara  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (SSA)  Scheme  of  Department  of  School Education  &  Literacy.  Under  the  NCLP  scheme,  on  the  request  of  DPS, grants  were  released  to  them  for  conducting  survey  to  identify  child  / adolescents  labour.    The  Ministry  of  Labour  &  Employment  has  released funds  to  50  numbers  of  DPS  during  2019-20  to  2021-22.  The  state  wise, district wise details are annexed.

As  per  NCLP  scheme  guidelines,  surveys  conducted  under  SSA  may also  be  utilized  under  NCLP  scheme.  Under  SSA,  survey  is  conducted  in each district of the country on annual basis to identify the number of 'out of school children' which may also include child labouers/adolescents.

- (b): In order to assist the State Governments in the task of rehabilitation of identified and released bonded labour, Ministry of Labour & Employment is  implementing  Rehabilitation  of  Bonded  Labour  Scheme.  Under  the scheme,  during    2021  -  22,  financial  assistance  was  released  to  the respective State Governments in respect of 1606 number of persons out of which 764 were male, 566 were female and 276 were children.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a)  OF LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2437 FOR 01.08.2022      BY  MS  MIMI  CHAKRABORTY  REGARDING 'CHILD LABOUR '.

## Details of States, Districts and amount released for conducting the survey under NCLP Scheme

2019-20:

|   Sl. NO. | State          | District         |
|-----------|----------------|------------------|
|         1 | Assam          | Kamrup Metro     |
|         2 | Assam          | Nalbari          |
|         3 | Gujarat        | Surat            |
|         4 | Gujarat        | Vadodara         |
|         5 | Karnataka      | Raichur          |
|         6 | Madhya Pradesh | Barwani          |
|         7 | Madhya Pradesh | Jabalpur         |
|         8 | Madhya Pradesh | Mandsaur         |
|         9 | Madhya Pradesh | Rewa             |
|        10 | Maharashtra    | Gondia           |
|        11 | Maharashtra    | Jalgaon          |
|        12 | Maharashtra    | Jalna            |
|        13 | Nagaland       | Dimapur          |
|        14 | Odisha         | Jharsuguda       |
|        15 | Odisha         | Sundargarh       |
|        16 | Punjab         | Amritsar         |
|        17 | Punjab         | Jalandhar        |
|        18 | Uttar Pradesh  | Aligarh          |
|        19 | Uttar Pradesh  | Kushi Nagar      |
|        20 | Uttar Pradesh  | Lucknow          |
|        21 | Uttar Pradesh  | Lakhimpur Khiri  |
|        22 | Uttar Pradesh  | Mirzapur         |
|        23 | Uttar Pradesh  | Alipurduar       |
|        24 | Uttar Pradesh  | Burdwan          |
|        25 | Uttar Pradesh  | Birbhum          |
|        26 | Uttar Pradesh  | Dinajpur Dakshin |
|        27 | Uttar Pradesh  | Kolkata          |
|        28 | Uttar Pradesh  | Maldah           |
|        29 | West Bengal    | Medinipur East   |
|        30 | Uttar Pradesh  | Purulia          |
|        31 | Uttar Pradesh  | Kanpur Nagar     |
|        32 | Uttar Pradesh  | Ballia           |
|        33 | Uttar Pradesh  | Hapur            |
|        34 | Uttarakhand    | Haridwar         |
|        35 | Uttarakhand    | Rudraprayag      |
|        36 | Uttarakhand    | Chamoli          |
|        37 | Uttarakhand    | Bageshwar        |
|        38 | Uttarakhand    | Pori Garwal      |

2020-21:

|   S. NO. | State          | District        |
|----------|----------------|-----------------|
|        1 | Gujarat        | Bhuj Kachchh    |
|        2 | Karnataka      | Ballari         |
|        3 | Karnataka      | Bengaluru Rural |
|        4 | Madhya Pradesh | Katni           |
|        5 | Maharashtra    | Dhule           |
|        6 | Maharashtra    | Solapur         |
|        7 | Odisha         | Deogarh         |
|        8 | Uttar Pradesh  | Barabanki       |
|        9 | Uttar Pradesh  | Firozabad       |
|       10 | Uttar Pradesh  | Rae Bareli      |
|       11 | West Bengal    | Darjeeling      |
|       12 | West Bengal    | Dinajpur Uttar  |

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