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175 Conclusions The three micro-level case studies in the three districts of Cuddapah, Visakhapatnam and Chittoor were studied from the perspective of understanding the life of the children of mine workers and quarry workers. The three studies show how transient the life of quarry workers is, without certainty of work and without sustainable livelihoods. The sharp correlation to this economic activity is the presence of an almost equal number of children, working in highly unremunerative and inhuman conditions. Particularly in Chittoor district, the life of the children in the traditional Vaddi community is highly exploitative, with high levels of school drop-out both due to poverty and due to the poor quality of education. This points a finger directly at the state responsibility in providing fundamental right of education since the enactment of the new Right to Education Act 2009. Merely setting up a primary school in these areas will not ensure that the fundamental right is met unless it is addressed with the quality and child-centred focus that it can bring in order to motivate the child to go to school rather than to the mine site. The fact that many of the children in the quarries in Visakhapatnam district are also enrolled in school is a deceptive reality, as most of them do not attend regularly or do not have opportunity for education that can see them through high school. The example of quarry sites in Cuddapah show that there is a need for urgent attention on how the state will meet the needs of these small numbers of migrant children, who, for no fault of theirs, are not living anywhere close to the child support institutions like anganwadis or primary schools. The need to provide education as well as a healthy habitat where they are not exposed to the pollution and made vulnerable to getting sucked into mine labour, are issues for several departments including child welfare, labour, health, education and also mines, to develop cohesive and coordinated policies that will effectively do justice to these migrant children. (Acknowledgements: The study in Chittoor district was done in partnership with MASS, Palamaneru and we acknowledge the contribution of B.Sunanda and her team in facilitating the field visits and in sharing their information and work details with us for this study.)
176 Kids Being Trafficked from N.E. as Child Labor in Tamil Nadu Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:29:16 PM 76 trafficked children hailing from Manipur and Assam, used as child labor, were recently rescued from a home at Kulitorai in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district. Prabhakaran, a member of the Child Welfare Committee, which rescued the children, said the young kids were forced to live in appalling conditions. “<strong>Children</strong> hailing from Manipur and Assam regions were smuggled to this place to work in stone quarries. We traced them from a place named Kulitorai, all huddled in unhygienic condition with no proper accommodation and care. Many of them even did not have proper clothes. Fortunately, we could save them and now they are under the care of Sharanalayam at Tirunlveli,” he said. Source-ANI TRI http://www.medindia.net/news/Kids-Being-Traffickedfrom-NE-as-Child-Labor-in-Tamil-Nadu-64323-1.htm Mine trucks’ bloody trail V K Rakesh Reddy First Published : 15 Nov 2009 05:31:00 AM IST Indian Express ANANTAPUR: While Gali Janardhan Reddy, Karnataka Tourism Minister and promoter of the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) defended himself tooth and nail in the face of a snowballing political controversy over the alleged illegal mining of iron ore by his firm on Friday, the human loss being caused by the OMC seems to have eluded attention of all. Statistics drive home the point –– more than 50 people lost their lives in the last three months in Anantapur district. Almost all of them were mowed down by trucks carrying iron ore. Not a single truck driver has been convicted till date and no truck has been seized either. Most of the trucks involved in the accidents, sources say, belong to the OMC. ……Another accident caused the death of a young girl who died after the Independence Day celebrations in her school this year. She was run over right outside her school by a truck carrying iron ore and died on the spot. http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Mine+tr ucks’+bloody+trail&artid=NFUxa/rkTX4=&SectionID=e7uPP4|pS iw=&MainSectionID=e7uPP4|pSiw=&SectionName=EH8HilNJ2u YAot5nzqumeA==&SEO=Obulapuram%20Mining%20Company
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15 National Overview Mining has imp
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27 2,055 children enrolled in Santu
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45 Part II State Reports 1. Karnata
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50 Kolar district: Key facts Total
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90 Inadequate Health Facilities Sev
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92 Many of the Workers in the Mines
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94 that 296,979 children aged betwe
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102 Conclusions Panna, once a rich
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