New Delhi: Nobel laureate and child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi sought a new law to keep a check on child labour in India.
Kailash Satyarthi
This, he believes, has nothing to do with parental poverty, illiteracy or ignorance. Satyarthi, 61, rooted for amendment to the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act in the upcoming session of Parliament which could ensure rehabilitation.
Thousands of children, mostly from poor rural areas, are taken to the country’s cities every year by trafficking gangs who sell them into bonded labour or hire them out to unscrupulous employers, promising to send their parents their wages.
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