Child labourers agitate to stop exploitation by NGOs

Thursday, February 21, 2008, 20:34 [IST]

New Delhi, Feb 21 (UNI) Scores of child labourers working in different areas of Delhi today staged a demonstration at the Jantar Mantar here, demanding that the Government must act immediately to stop their exploitation.

Being held under the aegis of child labour union, the agitationists, led by child labourers, shouted slogans against the NGOs indulging in corruption and demanded that the Government take concrete steps to alleviate misery of child labourers.

The agitating child labourers submitted their list of demands to the Department of Women and Child Welfare.

Students and scholars of the Delhi University and the Jawaharlal Nehru University also participated in the agitation to express their solidarity with the child labourers.

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