The Hindu : Pilot project to eliminate child labour

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Thursday, Apr 04, 2002

Southern States

Southern States - Andhra Pradesh-Hyderabad

Pilot project to eliminate child labour

HYDERABAD, April 3. The Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) will develop a model participatory monitoring and evaluation system for child labour projects that will be implemented in over 80 countries in the world.

Commissioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as part of its US $-5 million world-wide action programme to combat and eliminate child labour, the project will be implemented for one year in four pilot areas of the State -- Hindupur, Kuppam, Markapur and Visakhapatnam (slums) -- with the involvement of NGOs. These places were selected on the basis of 12 criteria including backwardness and incidence of child labour.

Documents for the Rs. 51-lakh agreement were exchanged between the ASCI Principal, E. A. S. Sarma, and the Project Manager of ILO's A. P. State Based Project, M. P. Joseph, here on Wednesday. The present study, which would target 4,500 children, will be the fifth for the ASCI in the child labour sector and third for the ILO.

Speaking to presspersons later, Mr. Joseph said the proposed system would discard the conventional top-down monitoring in favour of grass-root level monitoring of child labour projects.

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