Tag: Child Labourers

Puri: Three child labouers were rescued by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) from Puri railway station while being taken to Bhubaneswar to work in a construction company. According to sources, the rescued kids were brought from their hometown Malda of West Bengal in Howrah-Puri Dhauli express. The RPF also arrested four middle men accompanying the […]

Rayagada: A total of 15 minor children including 11 girls were rescued from Rayagada railway station. All the minor children from Kanchamuhi village were being taken to Andhra Pradesh where they would have been engaged as labourers in a prawn processing unit, sources said. It is pertinent to mention here that several agencies engage children […]

Berhampur: Four child labourers were rescued from a hotel in Ganjam district on Sunday, police said. The children hailed from Bihar and efforts were on to send them back to their families in Sitamarhi district, they said. Acting on a tip-off, a raid was carried out at the hotel and the children, in the age […]

Surat: A team of the Rajasthan and Gujarat child rights commissions, the former’s anti-human trafficking unit and an NGO jointly rescued 138 children in the 10-16 age group from Surat on Sunday, officials said. These children were brought from Rajasthan to work in the city’s textile sector, hotels and as domestic workers, they said. The […]