Contribute to the end of child labor and wean children away from drugs

Surajpur. As per the instructions of Collector Sanjay Aggarwal and under the guidance of District Program Officer, Women and Child Development Department, continuous inspection work is being done by District Child Protection Unit and Child Line. During the inspection, the inspection work was done by the team in the main market area of Ramanujnagar development block and the bus stand, main road shops, markets and Devnagar main market area. During this no child was found engaged in child labor and begging.

Shopkeepers were told through pamphlets that employing children in child labor can be punished with a fine of Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000 or imprisonment of six months to two years or both. The operators of paan shops at Ramanujnagar bus stand were informed not to sell intoxicants like paan, gutkha, pan masala, tobacco, cigarettes etc. to children below 18 years of age. It was told in medical shop shops that no medicine should be given to children below 18 years of age without doctor's prescription. Do not sell narcotic tablets, syrups or sleeping pills on demand to children. Rather inform about it. During this, Akhilesh Kumar from District Child Protection Unit, Jainendra Dubey from Child Line, Coordinator Karthik Majumdar, Nandani Khatik, DS from Police Department. Marko, Supervisor from Women Child Development should be present in Gangotri Devi Abhiyan.