POLICY

The National Policy on Child Labour, August 1987 contains the action plan for tackling the problem of child labour. It envisages:

1. A legislative action plan

2. Focussing and convergence of general development programmes for benefiting children wherever possible, and

3. Project-based action plan of action for launching of projects for the welfare of working children in areas of high concentration of child labour.

In pursuance of National Child Labour Policy,the NCLP Scheme was started in 1988 to rehabilitate child labour. The Scheme seeks to adopt a sequential approach with focus on rehabilitation of children working in hazardous occupations & processes in the first instance. Under the Scheme, after a survey of child labour engaged in hazardous occupations & processes has been conducted, children are to be withdrawn from these occupations & processes and then put into special schools in order to enable them to be mainstreamed into formal schooling system.