All stakeholders should be utmost vigilant to wipe out child labour and child marriage from the State, Minister for Health Veena George has said.
She was speaking after inaugurating a meeting of the stakeholders here on Tuesday to discuss the activities to be taken up ahead of declaration of Kerala as child labour and child marriage-free State. It was organised by the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in association with the Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
The Minister said the activities for the declaration were being taken up in a centralised manner. The objective was to bring child labour and child marriage to negligible levels. Sarana Balyam, a project launched in Pathanamthitta to monitor child labour and child beggary, had rescue officers in all 14 districts.
