Lok Sabha Question No. 685 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-24
Subject: Special Training Centres under NCLP
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta, P.P. Chaudhary, Suresh Kumar Kashyap, Anurag Sharma, Pratap Chandra Sarangi

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 685 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.07.2023

## SPECIAL TRAINING CENTRES UNDER NCLP

## 685. DR. RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI:

SHRI SURESH KUMAR KASHYAP:

SHRI PRATAP CHANDRA SARANGI:

SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA:

SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY:

SHRI ANURAG SHARMA:

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

- (a)the details of the institutional structure and officials responsible for  handling  the  Special  Training  Centres  (STCs)  under  the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme for the rehabilitation of child labourers;
- (b)whether  any  STCs  and  District  Project  Societies  have  been established in the States of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha particularly in the Deoria, Pratapgarh, Pali, Jhansi, Shimla, Balasore parliamentary constituency; and
- (c)if so, the details thereof and funds allocated for this purpose and the number of children it has benefited?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) to (c): Ministry of Labour & Employment has been implementing National  Child  Labour  Project  (NCLP)  Scheme  for  rehabilitation  of child labourers through District Project Societies under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate.  Under the NCLP scheme, the children in the age group of 9-14 years are rescued / withdrawn from work  and  enrolled  in  the  NCLP  Special  Training  Centres  (STCs), where they are provided with bridge education, vocational training, mid-day meal, stipend, health care, etc. before being mainstreamed into   formal  education   system.  NCLP  scheme  was  approved  for
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implementation up to 31.03.2021 and since then the scheme has been subsumed / merged with Samagara Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Scheme of Ministry of Education. Further, the NCLP Scheme was sanctioned in 324  districts  and  operational  in  59  districts  of  the  country  as  on 31.03.2021.  No new STCs under NCLP Project have been approved after 31.03.2021. 58,289 number of beneficiaries were mainstreamed under  NCLP  Scheme  during  2021-22.  The  details  of  budgetary allocation  (final  grant)  and  fund  released  under  the  National  Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme during 2021 -22 is as under:

|   S. No. | Year    |   Budgetary allocation (Final grant) (Rs in Crore) |   Fund utilized as Grant in aid, stipend and professional services (Rs in Crore) |
|----------|---------|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | 2021-22 |                                                 20 |                                                                            18.45 |

The  details  of  Special  Training  Centres  as  on  Date 31.03.2021 is annexed.

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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  TO  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  685  FOR  24.07.2023      BY  DR.  RAMAPATI  RAM TRIPATHI,  SHRI  SURESH  KUMAR  KASHYAP,  SHRI  PRATAP  CHANDRA SARANGI,  SHRI  SANGAM  LAL  GUPTA,  SHRI  P.P.  CHAUDHARY  AND  SHRI ANURAG SHARMA REGARDING 'SPECIAL TRAINING CENTRES UNDER NCLP'

## Status of NCLP Scheme (Sanctioned/Operational) Districts in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha [as on Date 31.03.2021]

|   Sl. No. | Name of State    | No. of Sanctioned NCLP Districts   | No. of Operational sanctioned Districts   | Name of District (Operational districts are in bold)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|-----------|------------------|------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Uttar Pradesh    | 56                                 | 3                                         | 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 |
|         2 | Rajasthan        | 27                                 | 3                                         | Maharajganj. 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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|         3 | Himachal Pradesh | -                                  | -                                         | Bilaspur, Chamba, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kinnaur, Kullu, Lahaul and Spiti, Mandi, Shimla, Sirmaur, Solan, Una                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|         4 | 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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

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