11 child labourers rescued in Uttar Pradesh

BHADOHI - Eleven child labourers, all aged between 8-13 years, were rescued from a carpet manufacturing unit in this Uttar Pradesh district Thursday, officials said.

All the eleven children, who hail from Bihar, were freed during a joint operation carried out by the officials of the Bhadohi district administration and members of an NGO.

“During the operation, the owner and the co-owner of the carpet manufacturing unit managed to escape,” Sub Divisional Magistrate Om Prakash Chaubey told reporters in Bhadohi, some 250 km from Lucknow.

“All the children rescued come from poor families and were brought to Uttar Pradesh on the pretext of providing high-income jobs to them,” he added.

All the child labourers, who were rescued during the operation, were later sent to a protection home for children.

“The task of handing over the children to their parents has been entrusted to the NGO members, who assisted us in freeing them,” Chaubey said.