Children - Terre des Hommes
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are not working in the mines. The Act should also<br />
be amended to ensure that the “loop-hole” clause,<br />
which allows the employment of trainees and<br />
apprentices from the age of 16, is removed.<br />
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institutions, particularly the State Commissions for<br />
Protection of Child rights as well as the National<br />
Commission for Protection of Child Rights with<br />
children affected by mining.<br />
Recommendations for Specific Ministries<br />
Ministry of Women and Child Development<br />
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evels of malnourishment, hunger<br />
and food insecurity in mining areas, as has been found<br />
in this study, and in keeping with the Supreme Court<br />
Orders in the Right to Food Case, 307 it is essential to<br />
undertake stock taking of implementation of ICDS<br />
project in mining areas.<br />
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section of child population who currently do not receive<br />
any institutional support under ICDS. Therefore,<br />
innovative programmes need to be developed to ensure<br />
ICDS programmes reach out to children of migrant<br />
families.<br />
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pre-conditions to mining need to be dove-tailed into the<br />
Ministry’s policies and laws.<br />
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gets into the act of signing MOUs with the states for<br />
implementation of its flagship scheme on child protection<br />
called the ICPS — Integrated Child protection Scheme,<br />
it must prioritise on vulnerable areas such as the mining<br />
areas. The aim of the scheme is to reduce vulnerability as<br />
much as to provide protection to children who fall out<br />
of the social security and safety net.<br />
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to address the condition of the children in mining areas<br />
in a manner relevant to their specific situations:<br />
o The institutional structures for providing<br />
protection to these children in mining areas have<br />
to be strengthened in order to bring stronger<br />
monitoring on players exploiting the children and<br />
to provide institutional support to, especially the<br />
migrant communities of mine workers who have no<br />
other grievance redressal mechanisms or support<br />
structures for protection of their children.<br />
o The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection)<br />
Amendment Act of 2006 is most applicable to<br />
children in mining areas—children working in<br />
the mines, child labour in other sectors because of<br />
impoverishment created by mining, and children<br />
living in mining areas are vulnerable to the<br />
exploitation and crime rampant in mining areas.<br />
o<br />
o<br />
There is need for extending the support (in a more<br />
focussed way) by the Juvenile Justice Boards, the<br />
Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) and the State<br />
Juvenile Police Units to adivasi children in areas<br />
where displacement and landlessness has led to their<br />
exploitation or brought them in conflict with law.<br />
The CWCs should be part of the monitoring<br />
committees that regularly assess the impacts on<br />
children and monitor the implementation of<br />
conditions agreed upon by the mining companies. In<br />
mining areas, as crime and vulnerability is high, the<br />
CWCs should be better equipped with manpower<br />
and resources at their disposal to ensure protection.<br />
Ministry of Human Resource Development<br />
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is a right for all children. Recognising their special<br />
situation and having paid the price for “development”, the<br />
government must ensure that children in mining affected<br />
areas, rehabilitated, displaced and migrant communities,<br />
are especially targeted to receive accessible and quality<br />
education. Number, quality and reach of primary<br />
and elementary schools, including infrastructure and<br />
pedagogic inputs, have to be adequately scaled up.<br />
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education”. The Ministry must move from the current<br />
method of temporary, ad hoc and para-teacher form<br />
of running schools to a more planned, permanent and<br />
sustainable education of children in mining affected<br />
areas, same as what is available to children of officials in<br />
the mining colonies.<br />
Ministry of Labour<br />
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in mines must be addressed by amending the law must be<br />
307 Website of the Minsitry of Labour. URL: http://labour.nic.in/cwl/ChildLabour.htm (accessed 11 March 2010)