Ban on scavenging by children
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23/05/2001
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Hindu (New Delhi)
The Central Government today issued yet another notification banning employment of children in six more activities and processes including rag picking and scavenging. Issued as part of the Government's ongoing exercise to declare more and more hazardous industries out of bound for employment of child labour to protect child interest, the notification pronounced the child labour could no longer be used for processes like electroplating, graphite powdering and Incidental processing, grinding or glazing of metals, diamond cutting and polishing, extraction of slate from mines and rag picking and scavenging.