Hand Book for Gaon Burahs and Panchayati Raj Leader

86In addition to this, Govt enact statuary laws to prevent and eradicatechild labour. To cite a few among them are pledging of Children Act,1933,Employment of Children Act, 1938,Factory act 1948,plantation labourAct 1951,Mines Act 1952,Motor Transport Act 1961,Beedi and Cigar worker(CE) Act 1966 and the Child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act,1986.There have been committees and commissions to suggest and advise theways and means on implementation of the law and amend wherevernecessary. The National Commission for child labour, Indian labourconference, standing labour committees, National Authority for elimination ofchild labour, Central advisory board on Child labour, National resource centerfor child labour are working tirelessly for eradication of child labour in India.Govt of India, besides all above, with the intervention of the internationalbodies and under the direction of the judiciary and with its capacity, hasformulated many policies and programme for eradication and for welfare ofthe working children and their parents. These programmes are beingimplemented through various departments of the central and the Stategovernments. National Child Labour Project scheme is one such whichconsists of three main ingredients implemented through the state labourdepartment. (1) Legal action plans which emphasized on strict and effectiveenforcement of legal provisions relating to child labour under various laws. (ii)Focusing of general development programme on utilization of various ongoingdevelopment programmes of other ministries/Departments for the benefit ofchild labour wherever possible and (iii) project based plan of action underwhich projects schemes for the welfare of working children areadopted/implemented.1. NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT SCHEME: - Under the projectbased plan of action of national Child labour policy the Government of Indiahas introduced the national Child labour project scheme with the objective toeliminate child labour and to suitably rehabilitate them. The target group is allworking children below the age of 14 (fourteen) years. For implementations ofthis scheme, the working children are to be identified through a surveyconducted by the state/Dist mechanism, withdraw them from employment andadmit to the special schools called child labour rehabilitation cum welfarecentre in order to enable them to be mainstreamed into the formal schoolingsystem.The programme components are (i) stepping up of enforcement of childlabour laws (ii) Formal/Non formal education (iii) Provisions of vocationaltraining, (iv) Income and employment generation activities for the parents ofthe working children withdrawn.(v) Direct rehabilitation, (vi) Raising of publicawareness and (vii) Survey and evaluation.Stepping up of enforcement of child labour laws is geared through labourenforcement machineries of the state/ Central Govt. However, the otherproject components are implemented through both the GovernmentalOrganizations and various agencies like NGO’s working in the field of childlabour, Trade unions, Panchayati Raj Institutions etc. All the expenses areentirely funded by the central Government and released to the concernedproject societies headed by the Deputy Commissioner as Chairman. Other