About 505 rescued children stopped education due to poverty, and 202 were engaged for works in factories, brick kilns, shops and other establishments due to broken families and other reasons, according to the data revealed by the AP Crime Investigation Department (CID) on the status of child labour.
“As part of ‘Operation Svechha Phase-2’ the AP CID, along with Labour and other departments conducted month-long raids coinciding with World Day Against Child Labour (June 12). CID Additional Director General N. Sanjay monitored the raids,” said CID Superintendent K.G.V. Saritha.
In the raids, 728 children, including 74 girls, were rescued. Of them, 662 were from Andhra Pradesh and 65 from Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka and other States. One of them was from Nepal, the SP told The Hindu on Saturday.
