The Centre has decided to adopt a somewhat novel approach to check the use of child labour by big companies and business groups in the country. Instead of cracking the whip on them, it has decided to rope them in to check the menace by drawing up an action plan in collaboration with them. Having failed in its endeavour to check employment of child labour by the corporate world, the Centre plans to seek the cooperation of business groups, corporates and multi-national companies (MNCs) to check the rampant use of child labour by industrial units and factories. The government is keen to ensure that business groups and MNCs are not involved either directly or indirectly with child labour. So in a bid to reach out to the industry, the Union ministry of women and child development has planned a brain-storming session with business-groups and multi-national companies next week. Yet another objective of the brain-storming session would be to check human trafficking. For many of these big companies have "sweat-shops" to whom work is outsourced. They are guilty of being involved in human trafficking by virtue of employing labour, be it adults or kids, that is not only paid a pittance but also made to work under sub-human conditions. Take the recent instance of a UK-based international brand's indirect involvement in child labour was exposed through a sting operation done by a UK-daily. The expose revealed that a manufacturing unit in India to which the international brand had outsourced some work was employing children. This not only evoked the ire of child rights activists but also brought to the fore once again the grim picture child labour presents in India. Other than seeking to work in tandem with big companies to check child labour, next week's meeting will also be calling upon them to outsource some of their work to self-help groups and rescue centres for trafficking victims, thus providing them with employment opportunities.